Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1981

Cooperman v. State

Cooperman v. State
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided July 21, 1981 · Hendry, Nesbitt, Schwartz
400 So. 2d 1056; 1981 Fla. App. LEXIS 20611 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Cooperman v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Cooperman’s adjudication of indirect contempt of court for spoken words published in The Miami Herald is reversed. The remarks concerned what Cooperman perceived as an excessive sentence which was imposed upon his former client. The comments were made at a point in time when all judicial labor had been concluded. The state failed to prove that the intemperate remarks constituted an imminent and serious threat to the administration of justice. Wood v. Georgia, 370 U.S. 375, 82 S.Ct. 1364, 8 L.Ed.2d 569 (1962).

Reversed.

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