McCOY v. STATE

No. 4D05-3374.

930 So.2d 811 (2006)

Robert McCOY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Tatjana Ostapoff, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Claudine M. LaFrance, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

Robert McCoy appeals an order adjudicating him guilty of indirect criminal contempt after he utilized inmate mail to send the trial judge an order containing an alleged "forgery" of her signature. We reverse the conviction because there was no competent and substantial evidence that McCoy filled out the proposed order, provided to him by officials at the jail, with the intent to deceive the trial judge, or anyone else, into believing the order had been...

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