MICHAELS v. LOFTUS

No. 3D13-1294.

139 So.3d 324 (2014)

Alexander J. MICHAELS, Petitioner, v. James LOFTUS, etc., Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth P. Speiller ; Woodward & Reizenstein and Philip L. Reizenstein , Miami, for petitioner.

Pamela Jo Bondi , Attorney General, and Richard L. Polin , Chief Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

Before SHEPHERD, C.J., and WELLS and LAGOA, JJ.


SHEPHERD, C.J.

Although counsel for neither party distinguished himself by his conduct in this otherwise quite ordinary probation violation hearing, the law by which we are bound affords us the right and obligation to focus on the two offenses for which Alexander J. Michaels was found in direct criminal contempt by the trial court and sentenced to two days in the county jail. One offense was a hand gesture directed toward opposing counsel. The other was the mumbling...

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