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IN RE CRIMINAL CONTEMPT PROCEED. AGAINST CRAWFORD

No. CR. 00-029A.

133 F.Supp.2d 249 (2001)

In re CRIMINAL CONTEMPT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST Gerald CRAWFORD and Michael Warren

United States District Court, W.D. New York.

February 27, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Campana, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Buffalo, NY, for the Government.

Kimberly Schechter, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Buffalo, NY, for Defendant Crawford.

Bryon J. Brown, AFA Center for Law & Policy, Tupelo, MS, for Defendant Warren.

James F. Blumstein, Nashville, TN (H. Lee Barfield II, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC, and G. Thomas Nebel, on the briefs), for Petitioner.

Barbara D. Underwood, Deputy Solicitor General (Seth P. Waxman, Sol. Gen., Bill Lann Lee, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Irving L. Gornstein, Asst. to Sol. Gen., and Dennis J. Dimsey and Gregory B. Friel, Dept. of Justice attys., on the briefs), for U.S. as Amicus curiae.

Richard L. Colbert, Nashville, TN (Charles Hampton White, and Cornelius & Collins LLP, on the briefs), for Respondents.

DECISION AND ORDER

ARCARA, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

On March 24, 2000, the government commenced the instant criminal contempt proceeding against defendants Gerald Crawford and Michael Warren by the filling of a "Notice of Criminal Contempt," pursuant to Rule 42(b) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The Notice charges that on three dates in 1999, defendants violated a temporary restraining order ("TRO") issued by this Court on...

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