IN RE MARTIN

Nos. 318 and 345, September Term, 1970.

10 Md. App. 385 (1970)

270 A.2d 674

IN RE MARTIN.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 10, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard J. Kerpelman for appellant.

James L. Bundy, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Donald W. Mason, State's Attorney for Allegany County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and MORTON and MOYLAN, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

On May 18, 1970, appellant Martin, a newspaper editor, was served with a citation for contempt of the Circuit Court for Allegany County for allegedly having taken a photograph within the courthouse in violation of Rule 11 of the Rules of the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Maryland.1 Appellant moved to dismiss the citation, claiming it to be an unconstitutional infringement of his First Amendment...

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