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- Title: State V. Dugan
- Author : Washington Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 02, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
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Cowlitz County Deputy Prosecutor Christoper T. Mahre appeals from a summary order of contempt. The trial court sanctioned him for asking a criminal defendant a question that, according to the trial Judge, was "irrelevant, scandalous, and inflammatory." Because a trial court may impose a summary contempt sanction pursuant to RCW 7.21.050 only for conduct constituting contempt under RCW 7.21.010, such as violating a court order or behaving in a disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent manner that tends to disrupt or interrupt the proceedings so severely as to warrant immediate sanction, and because Mahre's conduct did not fit within any of those categories, it was an abuse of discretion to impose the summary order of contempt. Accordingly, we reverse.
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