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· 6/13/1989

United States v. Frank Joseph Lach

Citations

  • 874 F.2d 1543
  • 1989 U.S. App. LEXIS 8452
  • 1989 WL 54736

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  • upholding defendant’s 42-month contempt sentence imposed on two separate contempt charges
  • upholding defendant's 42-month contempt sentence imposed on two separate contempt charges
  • “Yates . . . stands only for the proposition that repeated or serial refusals to answer identical or similar questions in a single proceeding may not be used to establish multiple, separate offenses for what is, in essence, a single, continuing contempt.”

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Judges: Vance, Cox, King

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