On Fri, 24 Dec 1993, Jim choate wrote:
As far as I know the contempt of court charges can keep you in jail till you rot.
Unless the judge recinds his order or your lawyer can get a higher court to over-turn the order you are stuck (as far as I understand it).
I recall a case several years ago where a woman (somewhere on the East Coast?) was thrown in jail for contempt. She refused several times to tell the court where her child was in an attempt to keep her ex-husband from gaining custody (I believe he was accused of sexually abusing the child). The woman had been in jail for several months when a higher court ruled that she must be released. I don't have any references to this case, perhaps someone else does. John Schultz jschultz@bigcat.missouri.edu