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478 Pa. 356

386 A.2d 971

Commonwealth v. Garrison

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 5, 1978

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1978-05-05

Relies on In Re Johnson

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Decided 1978-05-05

How this case has been cited

Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Marcone (1980), In re Dodson (1990)

98 state decisions

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MANDERINO, Justice,

¶1concurring.

¶2I join in the opinion of the Court; however, I do not endorse the holding of all cases from other jurisdictions cited therein. In some of those cases, conduct which clearly did not constitute contempt was held to be contemptuous. Secondly, I do not agree that any of appellant’s conduct in this case could have constituted contempt under subsection II of the Act of June 16, 1836, P.L. 784 § 23, 17 P.S. § 2041 (1962). Subsection II is limited to the failure to comply with a formal order, see In re Johnson, 467 Pa. 552, 556, 359 A.2d 739, 741 (1976).

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