The Pennsylvania Superior Court has vacated a defendant’s conviction of direct criminal contempt after concluding his alleged threatening of a witness hadn’t happened “directly under the eye of the court.”

The appeals court vacated the conviction and judgment of sentence for direct criminal contempt of defendant Leali Perkins, after determining the lower court had erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to establish he was guilty.

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