United States v. Robert Peoples

How courts have described this case

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• noting that even brief insult directed at court may support contempt conviction
• explaining “that the delay and distraction resulting from a court’s investigation of misconduct can be considered in determining if a defendant has obstructed the administration of justice”
• “We, and the majority of our sister circuits, do not consider tardiness or absence from court to provide an adequate basis for summary disposition under Rule 42(b).”
• “[W]e have held that the delay and distraction resulting from a court’s investigation of misconduct can be considered in determining if a defendant has obstructed the administration of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).