HERRERA v. STATE

No. 98-1535.

710 So.2d 1392 (1998)

Marco Tulio HERRERA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 30, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Louis Campbell, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Wendy Benner-Leon and Richard L. Polin, Assistant Attorneys General, and Odia Mallard, Certified Legal Intern; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., LEVY, J., and DAUKSCH, Associate Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The appellant was found guilty of direct criminal contempt for violating an oral court order concerning the contents of his testimony when he took the stand as a defendant in an earlier criminal trial. Our review of the record reveals both that the oral order did not contain the requisite specificity, see Kranis v. Kranis, 313 So.2d 135 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975), and that there was insufficient indication of Herrera...

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