Valley v. State (Majority)
Annotate this CaseAppellant was found in criminal contempt for failing to appear as counsel at his client’s jury trial. Appellant appealed, arguing that he could not be held in contempt for willfully violating the trial court’s scheduling order because he was under subpoena in another court and that the court’s decision to deny Appellant’s motion to delay the trial rendered the court’s underlying scheduling order invalid. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that substantial evidence supported the court’s contempt finding and that the failure to appear in one court due to a conflict in another can still amount to willful contempt.
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