Legal Opinion
United States v. Saccoccia
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 23, 2005No. 04-2669PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This case presents the question of whether appellants, a pair of criminal defense attorneys, committed civil contempt when they accepted legal fees from their client in the face of an earlier protective order restraining the defendant client from disbursing certain assets.
The appellants, attorneys Jack Hill and W. Kenneth O’Donnell, began representing the client, Stephen Saccoccia, in 1991 and 1992, respectively. Saccoccia and his co-defendants were convicted in 1992 and 1993 in separate trials; their appeals from the criminal convictions were resolved against them in…
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