People v. McPherson

Court did not abuse its discretion in sentencing Defendant to a consecutive 6-year term of imprisonment for direct criminal contempt. Sentence was not manifestly disproportionate to nature of offense. Defendant's persistent refusal to testify at his brother's trial, when he clearly had no 5th-amendment right to refuse, was a willful and deliberate defiance of the court. Court erred in ruling that sentence was required to be consecutive, because offense is not a felony. Court abused its discretion in alternatively imposing consecutive sentence as a matter of discretion. Sentence modified to run concurrently with Defendant's sentence for a drug offense.(BURKE and BIRKETT, concurring.)