Search Results: 'Walker v. City of Birmingham'

Contempt of Blood

Words: 3247 · Source Novel:: Blood on the Injunction

Defying the legal gag, Elias arranges a clandestine meeting with veteran reporter Clara Dorn to hand over the USB drive. Betrayed by a tap on his old truck, he is arrested for criminal contempt before he can speak. In a frigid courtroom, prosecutor Lyle Kress invokes the Supreme Court’s Walker v. City of Birmingham doctrine: even an unconstitutional order must be obeyed. The judge sentences Elias to indefinite confinement until he purges the contempt, while his younger sister Lena is taken into “protective custody” by social services—a veiled threat.