Court Opinion

ID: 9519807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 01:25:09.151086+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:25.867155
License: Public Domain

DUNCAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting:
I respect the thoughtfulness of the majority opinion and share its distaste for Officer Darling’s conduct. I also appreciate the narrowness of its focus and its *488careful tethering to the specific facts before us. However, the concern that prompts my brief dissent is that I am unable to agree that the majority opinion accords the level of deference to the magistrate judge’s findings of fact required by our standard of review. I believe that a rational trier of fact could have found a physical touching such as this implying an immediate intent to engage in sexual activity in public both obscene and physically threatening or menacing within the meaning of 36 C.F.R. § 2.34(a)(2).