Lopez v. State

423 So.2d 998 (1982)

Manuel LOPEZ, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

No. 82-529.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

December 28, 1982.

Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender and Robin H. Greene, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Jack Ludin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.

A trial judge may not summarily adjudicate a defendant guilty of direct criminal contempt when the alleged contemptuous conduct took place not in his presence or within his hearing, but, in fact, took place a week before the instant…