Legal Opinion
Brooks v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 12, 1996No. 94-SP-346PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge.
On March 18,1994, Clyde Brooks obtained his first criminal conviction when a Superior Court judge presiding in landlord-tenant *217court summarily held him in contempt because of his conduct and demeanor in court. Prior to adjudicating Mr. Brooks guilty and sentencing him to ten days in jail, the trial court neither appointed Mr. Brooks a lawyer, advised him of any pending charges, afforded him an opportunity to present a defense, nor permitted him to allocute in mitigation of his sentence. This procedure, we hold, did not comport with this court’s interpretation of the…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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