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U.S. Supreme Court Allows 'Coercive Confinement' to Continue in Attorney's Civil Contempt Case
April 27, 2010The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the application for a "Stay of Execution" (of civil contempt sentence) for jailed attorney Richard I. Fine who has never been charged with or convicted of a crime but has been held in solitary "coercive confinement" in L.A. County Central Men's jail for over a year. Fine attempted to disqualify L.A. Superior Court Judge David Yaffe for having accepted illegal payments from L.A. County, a party to the case before him, and who ordered him held "indefinitely," without bail, hearing date or release date. Full release.