Legal Opinion
CONTEMPT IN STATE v. Dewerth
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided June 24, 1987No. 84-1811PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HEFFERNAN, CHIEF JUSTICE.
This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals 1 which affirmed in part and reversed in part an order of James B. Schwalbach, circuit judge for Washington county, finding Bruce Currie (Currie) in contempt of court in the case of State v. Thomas Dewerth and remanded only for the purpose of affording him the right of allocution. We affirm the decision of the court of appeals.
On July 24, 1984, voir dire was conducted in the Dewerth case. In the course of voir dire, Currie, a panel member, was summarily found in contempt of court and ordered to pay a…
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