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2025 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VI. Offenses Against Public Administration
§ 1272. Criminal contempt; summary punishment.
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§ 1272. Criminal contempt; summary punishment.
A person who commits criminal contempt as defined by § 1271(1) of this title may in the discretion of the court be convicted and sentenced for that offense without further criminal proceedings during or immediately after the termination of the proceeding in which the act constituting criminal contempt occurred.
11 Del. C. 1953, § 1272; 58 Del. Laws, c. 497, § 1;
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