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SYKES v. UNITED STATES

No. 24008.

444 F.2d 928 (1971)

Grant SYKES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gerald M. Kane, with whom Mr. Reynold J. Bossidy was on the brief, for appellant. Mr. Grant Sykes, appellant pro se, was also on the brief.

Mr. Roger M. Adelman, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Axel H. Kleiboemer, and Broughton M. Earnest, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before McGOWAN, TAMM and ROBB, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

The appellant, a member of the bar, was convicted of contempt and fined $25.00 by a judge of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions (now the Superior Court). He appealed to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which affirmed the judgment. Sykes v. United States, 264 A.2d 894 (1970). We granted his petition for allowance of appeal and we reverse the conviction.

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