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BROOKS v. U.S.

No. 94-SP-346.

686 A.2d 214 (1996)

Clyde BROOKS, Sr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 12, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M.L. Armstrong, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Sandra Levick, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for the appellant.

Pamela S. Satterfield, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for the appellee.

Before FERREN and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

RUIZ, Associate Judge.

On March 18, 1994, Clyde Brooks obtained his first criminal conviction when a Superior Court judge presiding in landlord-tenant court summarily held him in contempt because of his conduct and demeanor in court. Prior to adjudicating Mr. Brooks guilty and sentencing him to ten days in jail, the trial court neither appointed Mr. Brooks a lawyer, advised him of any pending charges, afforded him an opportunity...

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