Legal Opinion
Matter of Thompson
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 4, 1980No. 79-716PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLY, Associate Judge:
Appellant appeals from his convictions on three counts of contempt of court, arguing that the trial judge erred in failing to re-cuse himself, sua sponte, from the contempt proceedings and that there was insufficient evidence to support his convictions. We find no error in the trial judge’s failure to recuse himself. We do, however, agree that there was insufficient evidence to support one contempt conviction; consequently, we reverse that conviction and otherwise affirm.
On April 9,1979, appellant was appointed to represent James Holden, a defendant in a criminal…
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