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MATTER OF SIRACUSA

No. 80-923.

458 A.2d 408 (1983)

In the Matter of Richard A. SIRACUSA, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Tatem, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Robert P. Mosteller, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae.

Regina C. McGranery, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Alan D. Strasser and Kathleen E. Voelker, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY and MACK, Associate Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is a rehearing of our decision of May 24, 1982 to affirm the appellant's conviction for contempt of court.1 We hold now as we did then, that suspension of imposition of sentence is a final judgment in a case for purposes of the right to appeal. We hold today that appellant's noncompliance with a court order giving him 15 minutes to attend to another matter was not contumacious. Accordingly our previous opinion in this...

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