OVERTON, Judge.
This cause is before this Court on a petition for a writ of prohibition asserting that respondent William F. Edwards, a judge of the fifth judicial circuit, had no jurisdiction to suspend petitioner's license to practice law in Florida as an alternative punishment for being found in criminal contempt. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, §§ 3(b)(7) and 15, Fla. Const. We grant prohibition and hold that the circuit judge was without authority to...
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