Case Name: Heddie Smith VEREEN, Petitioner, v. Lois SPEARS, Director of Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2002-06-19
Citations: 819 So. 2d 923
Docket Number: No. 3D02-1476
Parties: Heddie Smith VEREEN, Petitioner, v. Lois SPEARS, Director of Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Respondent.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and FLETCHER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 819
Pages: 923–923

Head Matter:
Heddie Smith VEREEN, Petitioner, v. Lois SPEARS, Director of Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Respondent.
No. 3D02-1476.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 19, 2002.
Glenn R. Miller, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General and Roberta G. Mandel, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and FLETCHER, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
As we have previously indicated by releasing the petitioner on her own recognizance, the application for habeas corpus relief from a civil contempt judgment and six month sentence for allegedly violating court orders is granted because of numerous defects in the proceedings and operative orders below, including the absence of findings that the petitioner had the present ability to comply with the orders in question and of an appropriate purge provision. See Pugliese v. Pugliese, 347 So.2d 422 (Fla.1977). Any further proceedings in this cause must be conducted in scrupulous conformance with the requirements of the law, including a sufficient charging document, trial and post trial orders. See Bowen v. Bowen, 471 So.2d 1274 (Fla. 1985); Fla.R.Crim.P. 3.840; Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 746 So.2d 1073 (Fla.1999); Amendments to the Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, 723 So.2d 208 (Fla.1998).
Habeas corpus granted.