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HARPER v. STATE

No. 154, September Term, 1986.

312 Md. 396 (1988)

540 A.2d 124

ALTIAN HARPER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender and Mary Ann Berlin, Asst. Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The issue before us concerns the nature of an appeal from the District Court to a circuit court in a direct criminal contempt case.

The District Court of Maryland, sitting in Baltimore City, found Altian Harper to be in direct criminal contempt of the court and sentenced Mr. Harper to ninety days imprisonment. The District Court's adjudication of direct contempt was based on the Court's findings concerning an altercation in the courtroom between...

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