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Bloom Vs. Illinois

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 20, 1968

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  1. Cheff Vs. Schnackenberg US Supreme Court · Jun 06, 1966
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  7. U.S. 194 (1968) U.S. Supreme Court Bloom v. Illinois
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  8. U.S. 194 (1968) Bloom v. Illinois
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  9. In view of the holdings in United States v. Barnett
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  10. U. S. 373 (1966), and Duncan v. Louisiana
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  11. petitioner, sentenced to a two-year prison term, was constitutionally entitled to a jury trial. See Duncan v. Louisiana
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  12. the death of the putative testator. Petitioner made a timely demand for jury trial which was refused. Since, in Duncan v. Louisiana
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  13. Notwithstanding these provisions, until United States v. Barnett
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  14. and federal courts to punish Page 391 U. S. 196 any criminal contempt without a jury trial. Eilenbecker v. District
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  15. I.C.C. v. Brimson
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  16. Gompers v. United
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  17. Green v. United
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  18. essential to the proper and effective functioning of the courts and to the administration of Justice. United States v. Barnett
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  19. the contempt was tried without a jury. 376 U.S. at 376 U. S. 694 -695 and n. 12. Two years later, in Cheff v. Schnackenberg
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  20. U. S. 373 , 384 U. S. 379 -380 (1966). See Callan v. Wilson
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  21. Schick v. United
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  22. right to jury trial applied to a prosecution for a serious contempt. Now, however, because of our holding in Duncan v. Louisiana
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  23. Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown
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  24. Coke v. United
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  25. Stat. 83. See Anderson v. Page
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  26. the authority to punish contempt summarily, Nye v. United
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  27. Gompers v. Bucks
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  28. Stove & Range Co., 221 U. S. 418 , 221 U. S. 444 (1911). See Michaelson v. United
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  29. Co., 266 U. S. 42 , 266 U. S. 66 (1924). Chief Justice Taft speaking for a unanimous Court in Cooke v. United
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  30. Cf. Blackmer v. United
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  31. Offutt v. United
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  32. Ungar v. Sarafite
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  33. Levine v. United
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  34. set forth in Fed.Rule Crim.Proc. 42. Judicial concern has not been limited to procedure. In Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United
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  35. Id. at 247 U. S. 419 . See Craig v. Hecht
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  36. U. S. 255 , 263 U. S. 277 (1923). This view proved aberrational, and was overruled in Nye v. United
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  37. Id. at 313 U. S. 52 . Cf. Toledo Newspaper Co. v. United
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  38. purpose to fence in the power of the federal courts to punish contempt summarily was further implemented in Cammer v. United
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  39. Amendment was invoked to ban punishment for a broad category of arguably contemptuous out-of-court conduct. Bridges v. California
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  40. United States v. United
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  41. Yates v. United
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  42. that convictions for criminal contempt, not infrequently resulting in extremely serious penalties, see United States v. Barnett
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  43. III and the Sixth Amendment do not apply to petty offenses. Only today we have reaffirmed that position. Duncan v. Louisiana
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  44. criminal contempt. Under Illinois law, no maximum punishment is provided for convictions for criminal contempt. People v. Stollar
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  45. U. S. 162 . Bloom was sentenced to imprisonment for two years. Our analysis of Barnett, supra, and Cheff v. Schnackenberg
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  46. may punish criminal contempt summarily, or accepted that rule without question. See cases collected in Green v. United
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  47. n. 12 (1964). The list of the Justices of this Court who have apparently subscribed to this view is long. See Green v. United
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  48. punish contempt was an inherent power of the courts not subject to regulation by Congress was rejected in Michaelson v. United
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  49. be tried summarily seems to derive from Mr. Justice (later Chief Justice) Wilmot's undelivered opinion in The King v. Almon
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court Bloom v. Illinois
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