Case ID: so2d_400/html/1056-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Leonard COOPERMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
    No. 80-1568.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 21, 1981.
    Steel, Hector & Davis and Sheila A. Hal-pern and Talbot D’Alemberte, Miami, for appellant.
    Jim Smith, Atty. Gen. and Steven R. Jacob, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
    Paul Morris, William A. Clay, Robert Ro-senblatt, Miami, for Florida Criminal Defense Attorneys’ Association as amicus curiae.
    Before HENDRY, SCHWARTZ and NESBITT, JJ.
   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.