United States Tenth Circuit

A summary criminal contempt order issued against a special assistant U.S. attorney for arriving five minutes late to a pretrial detention hearing is reversed where, under the circumstances, the issuance of such an order was a clear abuse of discretion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/31/2006
• Published 04/03/2006

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, McKAY, and O'BRIEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the brief:   Wayne T. Dance, Assistant United States Attorney (and Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, with him on the brief), Salt Lake City, UT.