Case Name: Leonard COOPERMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1981-07-21
Citations: 400 So. 2d 1056
Docket Number: No. 80-1568
Parties: Leonard COOPERMAN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: Before HENDRY, SCHWARTZ and NESBITT, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 400
Pages: 1056–1056

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.