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SOCKWELL v. STATE

Nos. 2D10-6129, 2D10-6130.

123 So.3d 585 (2012)

Camille SOCKWELL, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

December 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Marion Moorman , Public Defender, and Alisa Smith , Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Sonya Roebuck Horbelt and Ralph F. Guerra , Assistant Attorneys General, Tampa, for Appellee.

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Camille Sockwell appeals two orders holding her in indirect criminal contempt. These orders arise from proceedings in truancy court. Although the orders apparently have been rendered moot by subsequent events, we write to reverse them because the errors requiring reversal are clearly capable of repetition in Charlotte County's truancy proceedings.

We are concerned that the court in Charlotte County is treating truancy court as a quasi-criminal...

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