United States v. Whitt Neal

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that “[i]ndirect . . . [criminal] contempt does not occur within the presence of the court”
• specifying that “[i]ndirect . . . contempt does not occur within the presence of the court”
• explaining that \[t]he assumption of the role of prosecutor by the district court is the kind of error that we have long understood to undermine the integrity of court proceedings\
• explaining that an error is clear or equivalently obvious “if the settled law of the Supreme Court or this circuit establishes that an error has occurred”
• explaining that, “[i]n the absence of [settled law of the Supreme Court or this Circuit], decisions by other circuit courts of appeals are pertinent to the question of whether an error is plain”
• explaining that “[t]he assumption of the role of prosecutor by the district court is the kind of error that we have long understood to undermine the integrity of court proceedings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).