United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

“ Instead, a notice of criminal contempt initiates the proceedings, and the notice need only state the time and place of the trial, allow the defendant a reasonable time to prepare a defense, and state the essential facts constituting the charged criminal contempt and describing it as such. Fed. R. Crim. P. 42 (a) ; see also Romero v. Drummond Co., 480 F.3d 1234, 1242-43 (11th Cir. 2007) . Because criminal contempt proceedings are indeed criminal, a person charged with criminal contempt is entitled to the same constitutional protections due in all criminal proceedings. ”