HERMON WILLIAMS v. STATE OF FLORIDA

In this appeal, Appellant challenges three adjudications of direct criminal contempt imposed by the court after Appellant. went' on a vulgar and disrespectful tirade during a calendar call. We affirm the first adjudication of contempt, but reverse the second and third adjudications.

Although a defendant may lawfully be charged and convicted of multiple counts of contempt during the course of one proceeding, the basis for each charge must be sufficiently distinct. For example, in Tenorio v. State, 462 So.2d 880, 881 (Fla. 2d DCA 1985), the defendant earned four contempt convictions based on…