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MATTER OF BETTS

No. 90-1280.

927 F.2d 983 (1991)

In the Matter of John A. BETTS, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 19, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Kelley, Asst. U.S. Atty., office of the U.S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., for petitioner-appellee.

Kenneth A. Kozel, LaSalle, Ill., for respondent-appellant.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, FLAUM, Circuit Judge, and PELL, Senior Circuit Judge.

BAUER, Chief Judge.

It is said that one good turn deserves another, but in the case of attorneys John Betts and Kenneth Kozel, this old saying took a strange direction. On January 29, 1990, Judge Richard Mills sentenced Betts to three months' imprisonment for criminal contempt. 730 F.Supp. 942. What makes this otherwise unnoteworthy event unusual is that Betts' contemptuous conduct occurred during the course of his representation...

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