Legal Opinion
Garland v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided January 9, 1985No. 41422PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Garland, an attorney, was convicted of criminal contempt in the Superior Court of Baker County and fined $500. The conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. Garland v. State, 171 Ga. App. 519 (320 SE2d 548) (1984). We granted certiorari to answer two questions: (1) Whether the preponderance of the evidence standard of proof may be constitutionally applied in cases of criminal contempt; and (2) whether the out-of-court statements made in this case constituted criminal contempt.
Garland was retained as counsel for Stephen Brown, a defendant in a cocaine trafficking case in Baker…
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