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UNITED STATES v. EDGERTON

No. 723, Docket 83-6220.

734 F.2d 913 (1984)

UNITED STATES of America, and Ann Marie Govine, Revenue Officer, Internal Revenue Service, Appellees, v. David Edwin EDGERTON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob D. Zeldes, Bridgeport, Conn. (Paul F. Thomas, and Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), appointed by the District Court, for appellant.

Linda K. Lager, Asst. U.S. Atty., Bridgeport, Conn. (Alan H. Nevas, U.S. Atty., Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for appellee.

David Edwin Edgerton, Stamford, Conn., appellant, pro se filed a supplemental brief on his own behalf.

Before TIMBERS and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and RE, Chief Judge.

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

This case presents the anomalous situation of a conscientious district court displaying the patience of Job in dealing with an obstreperous taxpayer determined to thwart and mock the very concepts of justice which he solemnly invoked in the name of the Constitution of the United States. And yet we are compelled to vacate the contempt order which the district court felt constrained to enter. We do so because a district court, in exercising the...

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