IN RE PENNINGTON

No. 49,660

1 Kan. App. 2d 682 (1977)

573 P.2d 1099

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JOE PENNINGTON FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, JOE PENNINGTON, Plaintiff, v. F.T. JIM CHAFFEE, Sheriff of Shawnee County, Kansas, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Kansas.

Petition for review granted January 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Hall, of Adams, Jones, Robinson & Malone, of Wichita, Ronald F. Loewen, of Wichita, and Jack C. Landau, of Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff.

Gene M. Olander, district attorney, for the respondent.


Per Curiam:

The petition filed herein alleges that the plaintiff, a news reporter, was, in violation of the first amendment to the United States constitution, found guilty of direct criminal contempt of court for his refusal to give answers to questions propounded to him as a witness in a criminal proceeding in the district court of Shawnee county, Kansas, which answers would have revealed privileged information and further that he was illegally confined and...

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