We hold that the writ of habeas corpus is available to a relator who has been denied the right to counsel at a contempt hearing held pursuant to section 770 of the Judiciary Law. The right to counsel is of such transcending importance to an accused who faces the prospect of imprisonment that the failure to afford such right, apparent on the face of the record before us, must give the relator the right...
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