Court Opinion

ID: 9483128
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 09:12:17.739896+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:49:26.902376
License: Public Domain

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join the judgment of the court and agree with the majority’s essential holding that, as an appellate court, we are bound by the findings of fact of the district court.
Officer Glynn’s statement was an important and surprisingly vague one.1 It was relevant to the central issue before the court. I respectfully suggest that it would *260have been quite appropriate for the district court to deal explicitly with it in reaching its determination.

. The cross-examination of Officer Glynn included the following:
Q. Is it not true that you said to her: Don’t even think about it. I do the 60 yard dash in five seconds?
A. Sir, I don't remember that.
Q. Officer Glynn, you do remember running for the Chicago Police Department on their team, don’t you?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it not a fact that you — do you run, Officer? Aren’t you a runner?
A. Yes.
Q. Is it not a fact that you run in various marathons? Isn’t that a fact?
A. Yes.
Q. How many marathons have you ran in this year?
A. Four, five.
Q. What type of mileage were those marathons?
A. Five, six miles.
Q. Is it not a fact that you told her don’t even think about it because you — and you told her how fast you run. You were proud of it?
A. Actually I am a very slow runner. I couldn’t probably catch her if she ran. I don’t—
Q. You don’t think you could—
A. It is something I might say, but I don’t remember saying it.
Q. Something you might say?
A. Something I might say.
Q. Isn’t it something you might say right in the beginning when Mr. Haywood was escorted by the arm away from her presence? Isn’t it something you might say?
A. Counselor, I am sure that Mr. Haywood was not carried away from the scene by his arm.
Q. My more specific question, when Mr. Haywood left with two officers in their presence and they took the luggage, isn’t it true that you told her something about how fast you are and don't even think about leaving?
A. I don’t remember.
Tr. at 110-11.