| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In Bloom v. Illinois however, the Supreme Court of the United States held that direct or indirect criminal contempt should be treated by the States like other crimes insofar as jury trials were concerned.143 Thus petty contempts (under six months) do not provide an accused the right to trial by jury.144 That decision does not require that civil contempts mandate a jury trial, as they are remedial
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