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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Mar. 7, 2015

Attorney jailed for contempt is released, but criticizes judge, marshals

U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II released Caree Harper after she answered his questions about her client. But Harper said she was hospitalized after being taken into custody.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Caree Harper, the attorney in a high-profile civil case who was jailed for contempt of court on Monday, was released Wednesday after answering U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II's questions.


But Harper claims that Wright denied her procedural rights and that U.S. marshals harmed her when they took her into custody. "The experience caused me to go to the emergency room," she sai...

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