People v. L.A.S.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that minor’s absence from court proceeding, standing alone, was insufficient to establish willfulness
• “Direct criminal contempt may be found and punished summarily because all elements are before the court and, therefore, come within its own immediate knowledge.”
• “Direct criminal contempt may be found and punished summarily because all elements are before the court and, therefore, come within its own immediate knowledge.”
• “Indirect criminal contempt is contemptuous conduct ‘which in whole or in an essential part occurred out of the presence of the court, is not admitted, and which is therefore dependent for its proof upon evidence of some kind.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).