Rader v. State

LETTS, Judge.

For disobeying a court order entered as an adjunct to a domestic dispute, the defendant was held in indirect criminal contempt and sentenced to four months in jail. No court reporter covered the contempt hearing and the defendant claims reversible error for that omission, which deprived him of the transcript necessary to a successful appeal. We affirm.

In Loucks v. State, 471 So.2d 131, 132 (Fla. 4th DCA 1985), this court in a criminal case stated that Florida Rules of Judicial Administration 2.070(a) and (b) “are directory in the sense that they do not place an affirmative duty…