Mayberry v. Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1971-01-20

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Mr. Justice Harlan, concurring. I concur in the judgment of reversal solely on the ground that these contempt convictions must be regarded as infected by the fact that the unprecedented long sentence of 22 years which they carried was imposed by a judge who himself had been the victim of petitioner’s shockingly abusive conduct. That circumstance seems to me to deprive, the contempt proceeding of the appearan…

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