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SHEWAREGA v. YEGZAW

No. 06-CT-969.

947 A.2d 47 (2008)

Sisay SHEWAREGA, Appellant, v. Kidist YEGZAW, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 18, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Carey Woll, Wheaton, MD, was on the brief, for appellant.

Appellee did not submit a brief.

Linda Singer, then Attorney General of the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, Rosalyn Calbert Groce, Deputy Solicitor General, and Sidney R. Bixler, Assistant Attorney General, filed a brief on behalf of the District of Columbia as amicus curiae.

Before GLICKMAN and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and TERRY, Senior Judge.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Sisay Shewarega appeals his conviction of criminal contempt for willfully disobeying a civil protection order (CPO) issued pursuant to the Intrafamily Offenses Act.1 Appellant argues that his contempt conviction must be reversed because the CPO was void ab initio for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and alternatively for insufficient proof that he violated the CPO. We reject appellant's jurisdictional...

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