Miss. Attorney Lands in Jail for Failing to Stand and Recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Open Court

Chancery Court Judge Talmadge Littlejohn of Lee County, Mississippi has found lawyer Danny Langley to be in criminal contempt of court for failing to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in open court.

In a contempt order dated October 6, 2010,  Judge Littlejohn ordered the incarceration of Langley for failing to obey his order to stand and recite the pledge. 

The contempt order states that Langley “shall purge himself of the criminal contempt by complying with the order of this Court by standing and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in open court.”

Langley stayed in jail from 9:30 in the morning until 2:30 in the afternoon of the same day (October 6).

The same judge issued a release order on the same day, “after having found having found that Danny Lampley is attorney of record for a case previously set for hearing before the Court.”

Court records revealed that Lampley was representing a client in a divorce case.

As if to show that the contempt sanction has yet to be fully served, the release order concludes: “IT IS FURTHER ORDERED ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that the issue of further incarceration shall be held in abeyance pending further order of this Court.”

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