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Contempt Order Upheld Against Kentucky DOC Commissioner

Loaded on May 15, 2011

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Contempt (Civil Procedure), Probation. Location: Kentucky.

by Mark Wilson

On August 15, 2008, the Kentucky Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a lower court order holding former Dept. of Corrections Commissioner John Rees in contempt of court.

Fifteen-year-old Daniel Ottman pleaded guilty to first-degree assault following a 2004 shooting incident, and was sentenced to 10 years in ...

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