Court Opinion

ID: 9703244
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:46:58.786993+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:46.742723
License: Public Domain

SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, J.
(dissenting). I do not think that a trier of fact, acting reasonably, could find the evidence to be clear, satisfactory and convincing of defendants’ guilt. Although the officers testified they knew the defendant because she had been arrested for loitering and prostitution, her criminal record was not introduced into evidence, and there is no evidence in the record that the defendant was a known prostitute as this term is used in the ordinance. The officers testified that the defendant beckoned one car and that the defendant’s contact with male pedestrians was initiated when the defendant “walked towards them and they’d stop”. The officers were not able to testify that it was the'defendant who “repeatedly beckoned” the men, rather than vice versa. The officers were not able to testify as to what ensued between the defendant and the men who stopped. If the defendant was loitering for purposes of prostitution, I believe that the city unfortunately failed to prove its case as required under the ordinance. I would reverse.