HUBBART, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence for direct criminal contempt. The contempt conviction stems from the failure of the contemner, as a pretrial custody release custodian, to produce in court, as ordered, the body of a criminal defendant for trial below on drug trafficking charges. The case raises novel and important issues concerning the authority of a trial court to enforce, through contempt proceedings, pretrial custody release orders...
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