Rowe v. Superior Court, Judicial District of New Haven

The plaintiff in error, Lamar Rowe (plaintiff), brings this writ of error seeking reversal in part of the trial court’s summary judgment of criminal contempt rendered pursuant to General Statutes § 51-33.1 He contends that the trial court improperly found that he had committed a second, separate act of contempt for what was a single, continuing act of contempt in his repeated refusals to provide testimony as a witness in a criminal trial. The plaintiff contends that the second finding of contempt violates the common law, as well as his constitutional rights to due process and to protection…