MATTER OF HEATHCOCK

No. 82-7037.

696 F.2d 1362 (1983)

In the Matter of Summary Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against the Following Individuals June HEATHCOCK, Diane Williams, Jennie Cabaniss, Joyce Basenburg, Dean Quin, Jewell Basenburg, Sylvia Monsaco, Alena Hall, Linda Bradley, Bernice Spain, Bonnie Wise, and Naomi Butler, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 4, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanford, Fagan & Giolito, Morgan C. Stanford, Atlanta, Ga., for appellants.

Holly L. Wiseman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before FAY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

The issue presented is whether the failure of pickets to disperse in accordance with a court order constitutes behavior subjecting them to summary criminal contempt sentences, where the judge who issued the order visited the site of the picketing and observed the violations of the order. We set aside the convictions and sentences.

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