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PARSONS v. WENNET

No. 93-2810.

625 So.2d 945 (1993)

Kenneth Allen PARSONS, Petitioner, v. Richard WENNET, As Circuit Judge for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit and Richard Wille, As the Sheriff of Palm Beach County, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

October 20, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ileen Cantor, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Charles M. Fahlbusch, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hollywood, for respondents.

PARIENTE, Judge.

Petitioner, Kenneth Allen Parsons, seeks review of an order of civil contempt, which provided for his immediate incarceration for an indeterminate period of time. A criminal contempt order based on the same conduct and entered at the same time was subsequently vacated by the trial court. Because we find the civil contempt order to be an impermissible use of the trial court's power of civil contempt, we grant the writ of habeas corpus and direct the...

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