Legal Opinion
In Re Bernard
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 13, 1979PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Justice.
When a trial judge sees a breach of decorum as contempt of court requiring summary treatment at his hands, not infrequently the atmosphere is highly charged and the time for reflection and review is very limited. While the trial judge has both the power and the duty to so control the proceedings before him that an orderly trial, as well as a fair trial, will be achieved, significant issues of due process will often arise as he summarily disposes of the contempt matter.
Such a case is this.
In 1977 in Superior Court in Oxford County John J. Bernard, Chief of Police in Mexico,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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