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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 1255, September Term, 1993.

100 Md. App. 553 (1994)

642 A.2d 259

JAMES O. JOHNSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 6, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shannon E. Avery, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Tarra DeShields-Minnis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., and Stuart O. Simms, State's Atty., for Baltimore City, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, GARRITY and BLOOM, JJ.

GARRITY, Judge.

We are asked in this case to explicate the trial judge's role in entering judgments for direct criminal contempts.

The law recognizes two types of contempts, direct contempt and constructive contempt. The Maryland Rules of Procedure define each. "A `direct contempt' means a contempt committed in the presence of the court, or so near to the court as to interrupt its proceedings." Md.Rule P1. a. "A `constructive contempt' means a contempt which...

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