State v. Austin

Defendant appeals a judgment that found her in contempt and imposed punitive sanctions of one year of bench probation and a $500 fine. Defendant argues that the trial court plainly erred by imposing those punitive sanctions in a contempt proceeding for remedial sanctions. See Altenhofen and Vanden-Busch, 271 Or App 57, 62, 349 P3d 655 (2015) (reversing, as plain error, the trial court’s imposition of a punitive sanction where the state conceded that “there is no dispute that the proceeding below was initiated as a proceeding for the imposition of remedial sanctions”). We agree with defendant,…