Court Opinion

ID: 9542532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:35:29.689194+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:08:14.504074
License: Public Domain

MODIFICATION ON DENIAL OF REHEARING We judge that this court’s judgment should be and is hereby vacated insofar as it affirms the appellate court’s judgment and the order of the trial court holding Assistant State’s Attorney Matthew Chancey in contempt of court. The record shows that the trial judge understood that Assistant State’s Attorney Chancey’s contempt was purely a formal one and that the motivation for his refusal to comply with the subpoena duces tucem was solely to permit, through an appeal, examination of a question, the answer to which was not free from doubt. Accordingly, the concerned order of the appellate court and the order of the trial court holding Mr. Chancey in contempt are vacated.