Dustin Shea Kokenes v. the State of Texas

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• holding that it may violate due process when a judge presides over a criminal contempt case that resulted from the defendant's hostility toward the judge
• holding that it may violate due process when a judge presides over a criminal contempt case that resulted from the defendant's hostility toward the judge
• holding that a defendant charged with criminal contempt should be tried by a judge other than the one “cruelly slandered” by the contemnor
• holding that it may violate due process when a judge presides over a criminal contempt case that resulted from the defendant’s hostility toward the judge
• holding that it may violate due process when a judge presides over a criminal contempt case that resulted from the defendant’s hostility toward the judge
• holding that judge could not subsequently try a litigant for criminal contempt where the litigant called the judge, among other epithets, a “dirty sonofabitch,” a “dirty tyrannical old dog,” a “fool,” and had charged the judge with running a “Spanish Inquisition”

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