article_snippet: Last week, Christopher Cornell made a collect call to CNN affiliate WXIX, said news director Kevin Roach.
article_snippet: Christopher Cornell's attorney, Richard Smith-Monahan, argued that WXIX was in contempt of court for violating a January order "directing the detention facility holding the Defendant not to permit outside contact by anyone with the Defendant without [defense counsel's] express approval.
article_snippet: According to Mike Allen, legal analyst and attorney for WXIX, a producer from the station called him about 7:30 Thursday evening; Cornell's attorney had filed a "show of cause" order in Cincinnati's federal court and an emergency hearing was scheduled for 8:30 p.m.
article_snippet: During the hearing, which lasted five hours, a lieutenant at the Boone County facility testified that one of Cornell's attorneys had given Smith-Monahan a phone.
article_snippet: In that testimony the lieutenant stated that the lieutenant reminded the attorney that giving Cornell a phone meant the lieutenant would be able to call anyone
article_snippet: CNN on Saturday reached out to Smith-Monahan, Cornell's defense attorney, but so far has received no response.