Schwarz v. Florida Supreme Court

How later courts describe this case

• providing that chain of custody is conclusively proven when the seizing officer testifies: (1) that he seized the physical evidence, (2) that he has identified his personal mark on the evidence, and (3) that he placed into and retrieved the item of evidence from the property room
• encouraging careful balancing of due process rights where “imprisonment may be warranted” and noting that certification to another judge with appointment of counsel should occur unless “there is no other way to continue” the proceeding
• no error in failing to appoint expert to testify on issue of parole in a capital case
• New Jersey criminal code, "while abolishing common-law crimes, preserves this judicial power to punish for contempt”
• “The provision for de novo appellate review of summary contempt convictions is a fail-safe mechanism for assuring that the contempt power is not abused.”
• addressing custody of controlled substance