United States v. Larry R. Linney

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• stating that issues of statutory construction are reviewed de novo
• lawyer-legislator found in contempt for failure to attend trial claiming, among other things, that legislative duties “demanded his attention”
• “[W]here no legislative penalty is specified and sentence is left to the discretion of the judge, as is often true in the case of criminal contempt, the penalties or seriousness of the contempt will be judged by the penalty actually imposed.”
• “To support a conviction of criminal contempt for violation of a court order, the Government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant willfully violated a decree that was clear and left no uncertainty in the minds of those that heard it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).