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FIELDS v. U.S.

No. 00-FM-342.

793 A.2d 1260 (2002)

Brian O. FIELDS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Athanas for appellant.

Joseph W. Clark, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Mary-Patrice Brown, and John K. Han, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN, SCHWELB, and REID, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

On January 27, 2000, the judge presiding over a hearing on an application for a civil protection order (CPO) summarily held Brian O. Fields, the respondent in the CPO proceeding, in criminal contempt of court for disobeying the judge's repeated orders not to look or stare at one of the petitioners; the judge viewed the staring as potentially intimidating. On appeal, Fields contends that the evidence...

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