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CUNNINGHAM v. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DIST. COURT

No. 17627.

729 P.2d 1328 (1986)

Commander Jerry CUNNINGHAM, Chief of Detectives of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Petitioner, v. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE OF NEVADA, In and For CLARK COUNTY and the Honorable Paul Goldman, District Court Judge, Department X, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

December 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Miller, Dist. Atty., and Charles K. Hauser, Deputy Dist. Atty., Clark County, Las Vegas, for petitioner.

Paul S. Goldman, Judge of the Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, in pro. per.

Morse & Mowbray and Christopher H. Byrd, Las Vegas, for KLAS-TV, Inc.

OPINION

PER CURIAM:

This petition for a writ of prohibition or, alternatively, a writ of habeas corpus, challenges a purported order of the respondent District Court Judge Paul S. Goldman. The order held petitioner, Commander Jerry Cunningham, Chief of Detectives of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, in direct contempt of court, and sentenced him to jail "for 48 hours or until further order of the court, whichever occurs

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