RUBIN v. STATE

No. 85-2370.

490 So.2d 1001 (1986)

Ellis S. RUBIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ellis S. Rubin, in pro. per.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Michael J. Neimand, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HENDRY, HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order holding the appellant, an attorney, in contempt for refusing to comply with the trial court's earlier order requiring the attorney to represent his client, a criminal defendant accused of murder, in a trial scheduled to begin immediately. We affirm.

Nearly a year before the contempt order was entered, this same attorney representing the same criminal defendant (one Russell Sanborn) in the same murder...

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