Case ID: so2d_754/html/0243-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CALOGERO, C.J., LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Mark CASEY.
    No. 2000-OK-0275.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 9, 2000.
   In re Davidson, Jeffrey A.D.A.; — Other; applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs, Parish of Orleans, Criminal District Court Div. K, Nos. 405-835, 405-853; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 2000-K-0102. .

Writ denied. Stay recalled.

JOHNSON, J., not on panel.

CALOGERO, C.J.,

dissents in part.

They would vacate the second contempt conviction and sentence. A comment in words that were literally respectful and addressed to ‘Your Honor”, when the judge is not on the bench, but perceived as disrespectful is not a basis for holding the speaker in direct contempt, without affording the speaker a hearing or at least an opportunity to explain himself.

LEMMON, J.,

dissents in part. They would vacate the second contempt conviction and sentence, A comment in words that were literally respectful and addressed to “Your Honor”, when the judge is not on the bench, but perceived as disrespectful, is not a basis for holding the speaker in direct contempt, without affording the speaker a hearing or at least an opportunity to explain himself.