Young v. State

Sheriff Morris Young of Gadsden County, Florida, who oversees the operation of the jail in that county, seeks a writ of prohibition to preclude the trial court from continuing indirect criminal contempt pro*5ceedings brought against him by the state attorney, who asserts that the Sheriffs furlough program violates various bond orders entered by the circuit court. The State’s position is that the Sheriff is without legislative or inherent authority to grant furloughs, but may allow them if approved by a court pursuant to its inherent powers to do so. After the state attorney filed a petition…