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UNITED STATES v. CAMIL

No. 73-2973.

497 F.2d 225 (1974)

UNITED STATES of America Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Scott CAMIL, Alton C. Foss, Frank Hall, John W. Kniffin, Stanley K. Michelson, William J. Patterson and Donald R. Purdue, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 17, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry G. Turner, Gainesville, Fla., Doris Peterson, Nancy Stearns, Morton Stavis, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, Cameron Cunningham, Brady S. Coleman, Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

William H. Stafford, Jr., U. S. Atty., Pensacola, Fla., Robert A. Dierker, Sp. Atty., Robert W. Merkle, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before GODBOLD, SIMPSON and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

SIMPSON, Circuit Judge:

Each of the seven appellants was convicted of criminal contempt of court, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 401(1)1 and summarily punished pursuant to Rule 42(a), F.R.Crim.P., for contempt committed in the actual presence of the court2 in the course of an unruly outbreak in the courtroom. Imposition of sentence was suspended with unsupervised probation to continue for the duration...

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