MATTER OF RODRIGUEZ v. FEINBERG


40 N.Y.2d 994 (1976)

In the Matter of Antonio Rodriguez et al., Appellants, v. Robert J. Feinberg, as County Court Judge of Clinton County, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth M. Fink and Thomas J. Burke for appellants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Lawrence L. Doolittle and Ruth Kessler Toch of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN, GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER, FUCHSBERG and COOKE concur.


MEMORANDUM.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the orders of respondent adjudging each of the petitioners in criminal contempt vacated.

In the circumstances disclosed in this record none of the petitioners was accorded an opportunity to make any statement on his own behalf or otherwise to be heard. That each was afforded an opportunity to leave the courtroom before being held summarily in...

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