FAMILY COURT v. ALEXANDER


522 A.2d 1265 (1987)

FAMILY COURT of the State of Delaware, Respondent Below, Appellant, v. Thomas ALEXANDER, Jr., Petitioner Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: March 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Fairbanks, Jr., Chief of Appeals Div., Dept. of Justice, Wilmington, for respondent below, appellant.

Joseph A. Rosenthal, Morris & Rosenthal, P.A., Wilmington, as amicus curiae.

Before CHRISTIE, C.J., HORSEY and WALSH, JJ.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal, initiated by the Attorney General on behalf of the Family Court, seeks review of a Superior Court ruling which reversed a contempt adjudication by a judge of the Family Court. The subject of the contempt finding, Thomas Alexander, Jr., was found guilty of contempt of court, and sentenced to ten days in jail, for refusing to leave a courtroom during a contested divorce hearing in which he was neither...

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