The Virginia Court docket of Appeals has granted a petition filed by the state legal professional common for an en banc panel to rehear points raised after a witness was held in felony contempt for “misbehavior within the presence of the court docket” for allegedly testifying after smoking marijuana earlier that morning.
Final month, the Virginia Lawyer Normal’s Workplace filed a petition requesting that the appellate court docket put aside a 2-1 judgment issued June 6, wherein the bulk held that the circuit court docket impermissibly exercised the ability of abstract contempt in violation of the witness’s rights to note of the contempt cost, a good listening to, and illustration by counsel.
