IN RE KRAUT

No. 88-1108.

580 A.2d 1305 (1990)

In re Nina KRAUT, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Karr, with whom William G. McLain, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mary B. Murphy, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, and Helen M. Bollwerk, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN and STEADMAN, Associate Judges, and KERN, Senior Judge.


FERREN, Associate Judge.

The trial judge summarily convicted attorney Nina Kraut of criminal contempt of court. Super.Ct.Crim.R. 42(a).1 He cited three reasons: (1) Kraut repeatedly interrupted the judge; (2) in seeking to withdraw from representing one of two co-defendants because of a conflict, Kraut refused the judge's request to provide "the necessary information" in writing, including her...

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