Jackson v. State

This is an appeal from three separate adjudications and sentences for direct criminal contempt arising out of incidents which occurred within a short time of each other during a hearing in which the appellant appeared as a criminal defendant in the court below. We reverse all of the convictions for new hearings.

We reach this result as to the first and third adjudications because, in each of these instances, the alleged misconduct is not objectively supported by the record before us. Thompson v. State, 618 So.2d 781 (Fla. 5th DCA 1993); Ray v. State, 352 So.2d 110 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977), cert.…