B.M. v. STATE

No. 87-173.

523 So.2d 1185 (1988)

B.M., a Child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 25, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Robert F. Moeller, Asst. Public Defender, Bartow, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and David R. Gemmer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tampa, for appellee.


FRANK, Judge.

The juvenile appellant, B.M., has appealed from an order holding him in direct criminal contempt. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

The conduct giving rise to the contempt charges occurred at the conclusion of a proceeding in which the trial court ordered that accusations against B.M. should be tried in the adult division. After the court's pronouncement and the calling of the next case, B.M. muttered two obscenities which inspired the trial...

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