Legal Opinion
United States v. Scott Camil, Alton C. Foss, Frank Hall, John W. Kniffin, Stanley K. Michelson, William J. Patterson and Donald R. Purdue
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 17, 1974No. 73-2973PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:
Each of the seven appellants was convicted of criminal contempt of court, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 401(1) 1 and summarily punished pursuant to Rule 42(a), F.R.Crim.P., for contempt committed in the actual presence of the court 2 in the course of an unruly outbreak in the courtroom. Imposition of sentence was suspended with unsupervised probation to continue for the duration of the trial of the criminal charges. 3 The allegedly contemptuous behavior occurred during a pretrial hearing in the case of United States v. John K. Briggs, et al. See Note 3 supra. When…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- National Labor Relations Board v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Afl-Cio, Local 990Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1970
- St. Pierre v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Cammer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Hallinan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1950
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3Cited by10 opinions
- United States v. Larry FlyntCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- In Re Murray StewartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- Bernard and Odette Port v. Jack Heard, Sheriff of Harris County, TexasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- United States v. Joseph Herbert MarsCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1977
- Milton Wolfe v. Gerald Coleman, Sheriff Pinellas County Florida and Jim Smith, Attorney General of the State of FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
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