Caldwell v. United States

ROGERS, Chief Judge:

As part of a plea agreement, appellant Thomas T. Caldwell pled guilty to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and criminal contempt. The contempt plea was based on a count in an indictment charging him under D.C.Code § ll-944(a) (Supp.1990), for which he received a sentence of seven to twenty-one years imprisonment. On appeal he contends that his sentence for contempt was illegal since it exceeded the maximum sentence for contempt under D.C.Code § 23-1329(c) (1989) for violation of a condition of pretrial release. He also assigns as error the trial judge’s…