Legal Opinion
In Re Gale F. Weeks
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1978No. 77-1461PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
Gale Weeks, former Chief of Police of Little Rock, Arkansas, appeals from a conviction of criminal contempt resulting from an incident in the trial of a related case also on appeal — Simpson v. Weeks, No. 77-1331, 570 F.2d 240. We vacate the conviction and remand for further proceedings.
In the course of the discovery process for the trial involved in No. 77-1331 the federal district court had issued an order directing Weeks and his subordinates not to interfere with any of the witnesses. 1 During a recess on the last day of the trial, Weeks, one of the defendants in the…
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