in contempt charges began during opening statement and later related primarily to the format of the questions he asked during trial. In the trial setting, although counsel and the judge have great responsibilities, the judge had the greater duty to restrain her anger. It was her responsibility to maintain control over the proceedings. Her failure to maintain control in an appropriate manner prejudiced petitioner and his case. A review of cases in other jurisdictions that have addressed the arrest or citation of a criminal defense attorney before the jury supports our view that petitioner’s conviction must be reversed. In Ash v. State, 93 Okla.Crim. 125, 129, 225 P.2d 816, 819 (1950), the trial judge cited the defense counsel for contempt before the jury and then ordered him t 13, 615 (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 256 Ala. 373, 54 So.2d 616
holding that trial judges act of threatening defense lawyer twice with contempt tended to belittle the lawyer in the eyes of the jury and operated to prevent the defendant from having a fair trial holding that the prosecutors request that the jury send a message to the community was improper in the guilt phase of the trial but was not so flagrantly improper as to constitute plain error holding do you think i need a lawyer to be ambiguous holding as improper and prejudicial trial courts statement to defense lawyer in front of jury i ought to send you to jail holding that trial judges order to arrest defense witness in front of jury and accompanying comments indicated his disbelief of the witness thus committing prejudicial error