City of Shaker Heights v. Heffernan

Defendant-appellant Edward A. Heffernan appeals his conviction for indirect contempt of court in violation of R.C. 2705.02. This conviction arises from an incident which occurred on February 4, 1985, wherein appellant appeared before the Shaker Heights Municipal Court with Phillip Fresenda and entered a plea of no contest on a traffic citation issued to Joseph Fresenda. Appellant assigns four errors.

I

In his first assignment of error, appellant alleges that his prosecution was barred by the statute of limitations. We disagree. For a first offense, indirect contempt then carried a max imum…