Herman v. City of Crete

How courts have described this case

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• “Most jurisdictions hold that no right of appeal is available following an acquittal on the merits of a criminal contempt charge.”
• criminal contempt involves a punitive sanction designed to vindicate the authority of the court as opposed to coerce compliance
• this court held the same with respect to “actual knowledge” of a subpoena in civil cases under Civ.R. 45
• “The power of contempt is inherent in a court, such power being necessary to the exercise of judicial functions”
• “the primary interest involved in a contempt proceeding is the authority and proper functioning of the court, [and therefore] great reliance should be placed upon the discretion of the [court]”
• \Most jurisdictions hold that no right of appeal is available following an acquittal on the merits of a criminal contempt charge.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).