Attwood v. State

KLEIN, Judge.

Appellant was, as a result of one trial, convicted of five separate charges of indirect criminal contempt. The trial court sentenced him to five months, twenty-nine days in the county jail for each contempt, with the sentences to run consecutively. He argues, among other things, that he was unconstitutionally deprived of a jury trial, and we agree.

Appellant, while incarcerated, has abused Florida’s judicial system, by filing frivolous appeals relating primarily to prison conditions. As a result this court has limited him to appealing criminal convictions unless he pays the filing…