21.   Johnson charged Bakaly with criminal contempt and is hearing the case without a jury.

22.   Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel, then chose to charge her with criminal contempt, a felony that requires a jury trial.

23.   Last April, a Little Rock jury cleared her of obstructing justice and deadlocked on two counts of criminal contempt.

24.   Leggett fears the government might then pursue her on criminal contempt charges.

25.   McBryde then referred the Arizona officials to the local federal prosecutor to impose criminal contempt charges.

26.   Nevertheless, a Singapore judge recently convicted Lingle, the newspaper, its editors and its publisher of criminal contempt.

27.   Note that U.S. Judge Susan Webber Wright refrained from citing Clinton for criminal contempt for willfully misleading her court in the Paula Jones case.

28.   Otherwise, how do you explain the very harsh act of accusing McDougal of criminal contempt and a second indictment of Hubbell?

29.   Prosecutors then threatened her with a criminal contempt charge, where an even longer sentence would be up to the prosecutors, the judge and a jury.

30.   Schaeffer said she was contemplating a criminal contempt charge against the employer, who was not identified.Marlon Manuel writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.