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People v. Kennedy

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided October 14, 1963No. Gen. 48,892PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burman

The defendant, Jerome Kennedy, was found guilty of contempt of court for striking his seventeen-year-old stepdaughter after having previously been admonished orally by the court that he would be held in contempt of court should he molest or threaten her. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months unless “he sooner purges himself or unless sooner discharged according to law.” It is from this finding that the defendant appeals.

On May 14, 1962, Nancy Lingvay Kennedy was found to he a delinquent girl charged with stabbing her stepfather…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Rudnick v. JacobsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1954
  2. The PEOPLE v. HodgeIllinois Supreme Court · 1961

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. First Midwest Bank/Danville v. HoaglandAppellate Court of Illinois · 1993
  2. People v. A.M.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1984
  3. People v. Le Mirage, Inc.Appellate Court of Illinois · 2013
  4. Abbott v. AbbottAppellate Court of Illinois · 1970
  5. People v. RodriguezAppellate Court of Illinois · 1980

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