A Florida man who showed up drunk for jury selection shouldn’t have been sent to jail for it, the state’s supreme court ruled.
The Florida Supreme Court on March 17 found that Noel Plank of Tallahassee should not have been found guilty of direct criminal contempt by a judge in Leon County because some of his questionable conduct happened outside of the court and not in direct view of the judge.
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