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State v. Turner

Citations

  • 914 S.W.2d 951
  • 1995 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 705

How courts have described this case

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  • affirming three consecutive sentences of ten days’ imprisonment for criminal contempt based on attorney’s continuing disrespectful conduct towards trial judge
  • “summary punishment departs, often dramatically, from traditional notions of due process -6- that are the hallmarks of criminal justice”
  • criminal “contemptuous conduct must fall within a statutory provision” and the conduct must have been willful
  • evidence supported three contempt convictions

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Judges: White, Hayes, Gasaway

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