City of Bedford v. Lacey

I would reach the same result by sustaining the first assigned error, rather than ruling that the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the underlying case. In my view, the trial court did have jurisdiction, but the record does not support a contempt conviction.

The attorney’s allegedly contumacious conduct apparently consisted of one or more of the following acts:(a) his failure to appear at a scheduled hearing before another judge,(b) his participation in a one-half hour confidential discussion with his client about her prospective guilty plea, which led to her oral guilty plea,(c) his…