Court Opinion

ID: 9636262
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:21:59.130128+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:43.566912
License: Public Domain

BURGESS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the resolution of the case. Relator is being released from the order holding him in contempt, not because his conduct was not contemptuous,1 but because the underlying order is unconstitutionally vague. I have no quarrel with this holding, albeit a technical one.2 I wholeheartedly concur.

. Basic logic tells us, the relator’s conduct was contemptuous; the judge ordered the documents produced and they were not.

. The irony should not be lost that this constitutional "technicality” is being used to release a member of law enforcement from custody.