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U.S. v. SACCOCCIA

No. 04-2669.

433 F.3d 19 (2005)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Stephen A. SACCOCCIA, Defendant, Jack Hill, Esq., and W. Kenneth O'Donnell, Esq., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 23, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Kenneth O'Donnell, for appellants.

Michael P. Iannotti, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Robert Clark Corrente, United States Attorney, and Michael E. Davitt and Patrick Murphy, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, United States Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellee.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question of whether appellants, a pair of criminal defense attorneys, committed civil contempt when they accepted legal fees from their client in the face of an earlier protective order restraining the defendant client from disbursing certain assets.

The appellants, attorneys Jack Hill and W. Kenneth O'Donnell, began representing the client, Stephen Saccoccia, in 1991 and 1992, respectively. Saccoccia and his co...

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