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IN RE TINNEY

No. 84-938.

518 A.2d 1009 (1986)

In re Sidney TINNEY, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 15, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew C. Leefer, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Mark G. Gellar, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Steven Gordon, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and BELSON and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

Appellant Sidney Tinney was found guilty of contempt of court,1 and sentenced to thirty months in prison. On appeal, he asserts that he was deprived of his right to trial by jury, and that the trial court should have required the government to comply with the terms of a cooperation agreement.2 We affirm.

In March 1983, Tinney testified before a grand jury that he saw Douglas...

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