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IN RE KATZ

No. 3:06MC00008.

476 F.Supp.2d 572 (2007)

In re Jonathan L. KATZ.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Charlottesville Division.

March 7, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Gould, Assistant United States Attorney, Charlottesville, Virginia, for United States of America.

Murray J. Janus, Bremner, Janus, Cook & Stone, Richmond, Virginia, and David L. Heilberg, Dygert, Wright, Hobbs and Heilberg, PLC, Charlottesville, Virginia, for Jonathan L. Katz.

OPINION

JONES, Chief Judge.

The question before the court is whether under the facts an attorney should be held in contempt for disobeying an order of the trial judge directing him not to refer to government witnesses as "liars" during closing argument in a criminal trial.

I

Jonathan L. Katz, an attorney at law, represented a defendant in a criminal prosecution in this court. Because of an event that occurred during the course of the jury...

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