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Shirley v. Shirley

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
May 15, 1997
693 So. 2d 699 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

Opinion

Case No. 97-1587

Opinion filed May 15, 1997

Petition for writ of habeas corpus to the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County; Howard M. Zeidwig, Judge; L.T. Case No. 97-5420 FMCE (40).

Andrew J. Stien of The Law Firm of Andrew J. Stien, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Nancy D. Pelosi of Kopelowitz, Saavedra Pelosi, Fort Lauderdale, for Respondent-Elyse Shirley.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and David M. Schultz, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for Respondent-Ron Cochran as Sheriff of Broward County, Florida.


We grant the petition for writ of habeas corpus. The circuit court failed to follow the procedural requirements set out in Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.840 for indirect criminal contempt, or the procedural requirements for civil contempt found in Bowen v. Bowen, 471 So.2d 1274 (Fla. 1985); Stephenson v. Harden, 682 So.2d 1198 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996); and In re Getty, 427 So.2d 380, 382 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983). We quash the contempt order without prejudice to the circuit court renewing the contempt proceedings, following the appropriate procedures.

PETITION GRANTED.

POLEN, STEVENSON and GROSS, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Shirley v. Shirley

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
May 15, 1997
693 So. 2d 699 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)
Case details for

Shirley v. Shirley

Case Details

Full title:JOSEPH MICHAEL SHIRLEY, Petitioner, v. ELYSE SHIRLEY and RON COCHRAN as…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: May 15, 1997

Citations

693 So. 2d 699 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)