In Re Joseph Brown

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• noting summary contempt powers should be used sparingly in exceptional circumstances because summary punishment “departs, often dramatically, from traditional notions of due process that are the hallmarks of criminal justice” (quotations and citation omitted)
• “The court’s power to punish parties for courtroom misconduct is ‘absolutely essential to the smooth functioning of the judicial system.’”

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