MRHA v. CIRCUIT COURT, FELONY DIV.

No. 87-2538.

537 So.2d 182 (1989)

United States Secret Service Special Agent John MRHA, Appellant, v. CIRCUIT COURT, FELONY DIVISION, In and for BROWARD COUNTY, Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 18, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty., and Samuel D. Armstrong, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Terrence J. Russell and Mimi Sall-Pritchard of Ruden, Barnett, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


LETTS, Judge.

The trial court held a Federal Secret Service agent in direct criminal contempt for revealing, during his testimony, evidence of collateral crimes after he had been instructed not to do so. We reverse.

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