Kreager v. State

DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellant, James Kreager, appeals from an order of the trial court finding him guilty of both direct and indirect contempt of court and sentencing him to ninety days in the Broward County Jail, plus one hundred hours of community service and the expense of the trial court proceedings.

The contempt proceedings arose out of a charge that Kreager had called a Broward County deputy clerk a nigger when she refused to furnish him certified copies of court records without compensation. Word of the incident reached Judge Mark Speiser through his secretary, resulting in the judge’s…