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IN RE SMITH

No. 2005-CP-00415-SCT.

926 So.2d 878 (2006)

In re Susan C. SMITH.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 20, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant, pro se.

Office of the Attorney General by John R. Henry, attorney for appellee.

Before SMITH, C.J., CARLSON and DICKINSON, JJ.

CARLSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Today's case involves a pro se appeal from the incarceration of an attorney for direct criminal contempt. The attorney was representing a mother and her daughter in the Chancery Court for the First Judicial District of Carroll County, in Carrollton, in a divorce and a paternity suit, respectively, when the attorney was held in direct criminal contempt by the chancellor for comments she made in open court. The events that...

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