SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
When asked whether he had anything to say before being sentenced on a second degree murder charge of which he had been found guilty on hotly disputed evidence, the defendant-appellant said, "The only thing, everything you got is crooked." On the asserted basis that Suggs had accused "the court of being crooked" [e.s.], the trial judge immediately held him in direct criminal contempt for this remark as evincing an "open disrespect for...
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