United States v. Winter

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Howard T. Winter refused to testify in a former codefendant’s criminal trial despite a grant of immunity. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts adjudged Winter in criminal contempt under Fed.R.Crim.P. 42(a) and imposed a six-month sentence consecutive to one under which he was already incarcerated. In this appeal, Winter challenges certain aspects of the summary contempt proceedings and the resulting sentence. We affirm.

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Factual Background and Prior Proceedings

In January 1992, a grand jury returned a multiple-count indictment against…