Luttrell v. Panozzo

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCORMICK,

dissenting:

Respectfully, I dissent from the majority’s conclusion that plaintiff was found guilty of criminal contempt rather than civil contempt. The line of demarcation between civil and criminal contempt is often indistinct. (Harvey v. Carponelli (1983), 117 Ill. App. 3d 448, 452-53, 453 N.E.2d 820.) With a mindset that said civil contempt, the trial court was oblivious to the possibility that some day these proceedings would be deemed criminal contempt. The trial court specifically stated that the contempt is indirect civil contempt and the burden is the…