Appellate Law

GA: Jefferson contempt coverage reversed

By S. COTUS

Detail-oriented real lawyers (i.e. our fans) will recall our coverage of Sherri Jefferson.   (Even more of our coverage here.)  Well, A Public Defender tells us that the contempt conviction of public defender, Sherri Jefferson was reversed by the George Supreme Court. As the real lawyers amongst us will recall, Ms. Jefferson, was a public defender in a fairly new office in a jurisdiction which has not really worked out what it is like to have a static public defender agency.  Strangely, rather than just telling the trial court to stop being so petty (or at least stop using the power of contempt to fight its political battles), the George supremes lay out some guidelines (and provide an overview of the substance of the law of contempt) for when trial courts can hold lawyers in contempt.

Full post as published by Appellate Law and Practice on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).