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U.S. v. WINTER

No. 94-2302.

70 F.3d 655 (1995)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Howard T. WINTER, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 22, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thornton E. Lallier, Amesbury, MA, for appellant.

George W. Vien, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Geoffrey E. Hobart, Assistant United States Attorney, and Donald K. Stern, United States Attorney, were on brief, Boston, MA, for the United States.

Before STAHL, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

STAHL, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Howard T. Winter refused to testify in a former codefendant's criminal trial despite a grant of immunity. The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts adjudged Winter in criminal contempt under Fed.R.Crim.P. 42(a) and imposed a six-month sentence consecutive to one under which he was already incarcerated. In this appeal, Winter challenges certain aspects of the summary contempt proceedings and the resulting sentence...

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