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RAMOS v. U.S.

No. 88-713.

569 A.2d 158 (1990)

Carlos M. RAMOS, a/k/a Carlos M. Castro, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 24, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Buckman, Washington, D.C., for appellant. Steven R. Kiersh and Karen L. Hochstein, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Joyce J. Bang, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman and J. Edward Agee, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Ramos, while serving a prison sentence, was called to testify at a post-trial hearing on behalf of his former co-defendant, Frank Smith. Ramos refused to testify, despite being advised by the trial court that he had no valid Fifth Amendment claim of possible self-incrimination. When he persisted in his refusal, the court held him in civil contempt, ordered that he be returned to prison, and further ordered that his ongoing sentence...

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