State v. Ngo

27 P.3d 1002 (2001)

130 N.M. 515

2001-NMCA-041

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Quan NGO, Defendant, and

Robert Johnstone, Esq., Real Party in Interest-Appellant.

No. 21,263.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

May 16, 2001.

Patricia A. Madrid, Attorney General, Steve Suttle, Ass't Attorney General, Santa Fe, NM, for Appellee.

David Henderson, Santa Fe, NM, for Appellant.

OPINION

BUSTAMANTE, Judge.

{1} This case came before us in an unusual procedural posture and involves the law of criminal contempt and the punishment that may be imposed on an attorney by the trial court for contemptuous conduct.…