In re Adams

BENHAM, Justice.

Appellant Herbert Adams is an attorney who was held in wilful contempt of court while representing Michael Blaine in a criminal prosecution for murder in the Superior Court of DeKalb County. On the third morning of Blaine’s July 2011 trial, Judge Mark Anthony Scott, upon hearing subpoenaed testimony from the attorney representing the State’s material witness Walter Landers and upon questioning appellant directly, decided to continue Blaine’s trial and institute contempt proceedings against appellant on the basis that appellant was not prepared for the specially set trial.…