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IN THE MATTER OF SHORTER

No. 4294.

236 A.2d 318 (1967)

In the Matter of John A. SHORTER, Jr., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Gardner, Washington, D. C., with whom Theodore R. Newman, Washington, D. C., Jr., was on the brief, for appellant. John A. Shorter, Jr., Washington, D. C., appellant, also entered an appearance.

Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and John R. Hess, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and MYERS and KELLY, Associate Judges.

PER CURIAM.

The facts in this appeal, which arises from an adjudication of appellant for contempt, are not in conflict.

As attorney for the defendant in a criminal case, appellant was scheduled to appear with his client for sentencing before a trial judge in the Court of General Sessions on a Friday morning. When the case was called shortly after ten o'clock, appellant's client had not yet appeared. The court, therefore, granted counsel's request that he be...

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