Mayberry v. Frame

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS

KNOX, District Judge.

Following a criminal trial in which petitioner Mayberry, Dominick Codispoti and Herbert Langnes were found guilty by a jury, the trial judge pronounced the defendants guilty of criminal contempt for their conduct during the trial. The petitioner Richard O. J. Mayberry, pronounced guilty of eleven separate contempts, was sentenced to eleven consecutive terms of one to two years. Ultimately, the- United States Supreme Court reversed the contempt convictions, directing trial before another .judge “not bearing the sting of these…