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CALDWELL v. U.S.

No. 87-891.

595 A.2d 961 (1991)

Thomas T. CALDWELL, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Godwin Oyewole, appointed by this court, for appellant. Joanne Roney Hepworth, appointed by this court, was on the brief, for appellant.

William R. Cowden, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell and Mary Ellen Abrecht, Asst. U.S. Attys. at the time the brief was filed, and Terence J. Keeney and Patricia A. Riley, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and TERRY and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

ROGERS, Chief Judge:

As part of a plea agreement, appellant Thomas T. Caldwell pled guilty to two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and criminal contempt. The contempt plea was based on a count in an indictment charging him under D.C.Code § 11-944(a) (Supp.1990), for which he received a sentence of seven to twenty-one years imprisonment. On appeal he contends that his sentence for contempt was illegal since it exceeded the maximum sentence for contempt...

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