Legal Opinion
State v. Alexander
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided October 17, 1969PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFRESNE, Justice.
On July 7, 1967 Grover G. Alexander, an attorney-at-law, was summarily adjudged guilty of criminal contempt for disrespectful, defiant and insolent conduct in the course of a civil trial in which he represented the plaintiff. He was sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for the term of 5 days and ordered to pay a fine of $500. Surrendering himself to the Sheriff, Alexander at the same time filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus before a Justice of this Court who issued the writ and ordered a hearing thereon. From the subsequent dismissal of the writ, an appeal…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Weems v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Ex Parte Sibbald v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1838
- United States v. Jacques M. SchifferCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1965
- United States v. HoweCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
- Alexander v. SharpeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1968
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3Cited by12 opinions
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- Weeks v. StateSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1970
- State v. DeLongSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1983
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