Court Opinion

ID: 9528587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:42:13.413499+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:27:04.155716
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE RYAN, dissenting: In reviewing the evidence, I cannot agree with the conclusion of the majority that there is no contradictory evidence “that any of the defendants ever heard the police warning.” The evidence shows that the order to disperse was read over the public address system on a police vehicle as it circled the block and that this was done five minutes before the arrests were made. The fact that the defendants testified that they did not hear the dispersal order created only a question of credibility with regard to their testimony which the trial court resolved adversely to them. (City of Chicago v. Jacobs, 46 Ill.2d 214.) We must, accept the trial court’s findings, unless this court is willing to violate a well established principle and substitute its determination as to whether or not these statements of the defendants are worthy of belief. Having accepted the finding of the trial court on this subject we can then move on to the issue which brought the appeal to this court, the constitutionality of the city ordinance. For this reason I cannot agree with the majority opinion.