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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Stephen H. BUTTER, Respondent.
    No. 89-754.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Aug. 1, 1989.
    Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., and Fariba N. Komeily, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.
    Young, Stern & Tannenbaum, P.A., and Burton Young, North Miami Beach, for respondent.
    Before BASKIN, JORGENSON and COPE, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Because intent is an essential element of the crime of contempt, Florida Ventilated Awning Co. v. Dickson, 67 So.2d 218 (Fla. 1953); Dudley v. State, 511 So.2d 1052 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987); Thomson v. State, 398 So.2d 514 (Fla. 2d DCA 1981), the circuit court did not depart from the essential requirements of the law in reversing the judgment and sentence of contempt. Therefore, we deny the state’s petition for writ of common law certiorari.

Petition denied.

BASKIN and JORGENSON, JJ., concur.

COPE, Judge

(dissenting).

I would grant the petition under authority of Aron v. Huttoe, 258 So.2d 272 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. discharged, 265 So.2d 699 (Fla.1972), but on this record would mitigate the penalty to a monetary sanction only. See Studnick v. State, 341 So.2d 808 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. denied, 348 So.2d 954 (Fla.1977).