Commonwealth v. Robison, D., Pet

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• good faith reliance on counsel’s advice to disobey a court order is not a defense to contempt
• “[T]he proper course of action, unless and until the court’s order is invalidated by an appellate court, was for appellants to comply and cite the order as reversible error.”
• good faith reliance on counsel's advice to disobey a court order is not a defense to contempt
• “The critical inquiry is whether the appellants were aware that they were disobeying a lawful court order, not whether they realized the nature of the punishment they could receive for disobeying that order.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).