Sockwell v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Camille Sockwell appeals two orders holding her in indirect criminal contempt. These orders arise from proceedings in truancy court. Although the orders apparently have been rendered moot by subsequent events, we write to reverse them because the errors requiring reversal are clearly capable of repetition in Charlotte County’s truancy proceedings.

We are concerned that the court in Charlotte County is treating truancy court as a quasi-criminal court, in which indirect criminal contempt proceedings — initiated, prosecuted, and adjudicated by the judge — are a common form of…