State v. Ramsey

Defendant appeals from 18 orders of summary contempt. ORS 33.096.1 The trial court imposed 30 days in jail and a $500 fine for each contempt order with the time to be served consecutively. Defendant argues that the trial court erred by mistakenly treating the first contempt order as a summary contempt; that the trial judge’s refusal to disqualify himself from sentencing defendant violated his right to be sentenced by an impartial judge; that the trial court erred by citing defendant for 17 separate contempt orders during one proceeding instead of one continuing contempt; that the trial court…