Richard Morris - Cook County State's Attorney

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were driving in their squad car, heading west on School Street. They were on tactical duty, and were just finishing their 12-to-8 a.m. shift and were returning to the station. (R.131-132; 1181-1182) They were in uniform. They turned left onto Paulina, headed south toward Belmont Avenue. Directly in front of them was a 1995 Chevy Impala SS. (R.131-133; 1182-1183) It was very clean and shiny. It appeared "brand new." (R. 147- 148; 1183) This car pulled to the right and stopped at 3250 North Paulina, to the right of the officers' car. (R. 133, 1183) Two men got out of the car. (R. 133;1184) At trial Officer Lotts identified defendant Richard Morris as the driver and codefendant Tywon Knight as the passenger. (R. 1184-1185) After getting out of the car the two defendants walked across the street, crossing in front of the police car "so close that they could have almost touched" it. (R. 133; 1186) The two men made eye contact with the officers and – in the words of Officer Lotts – "They made direct eye contact with both my partner and I and they just gave us a look that I have never seen before. . . to me I characterized it as one of surprise and shock, and fear when they saw us." (R. 134-135, 147;1186) They continued walking past in front of the police car until they reached the curb. At that point they were at the mouth of an alley, and there they began to run, eastbound into the alley. (R. 135; 1186) Officers Lopresti and Lotts pulled their car into the mouth of the alley, got out and started running after the two defendants. (R. 138; 1187) Officer Lotts yelled at them to stop, but they did not. The two men climbed over a six-foot chain-link fence instead, landing on the other side in a yard of a building facing School Street. (R. 138-139, 1188) Officer Lopresti ran back to the west, toward their car, and Officer Lotts ran eastward until he saw the two defendants crouching in a gangway between two buildings. (R. 139-140; 3
1189) When Officer Lotts again yelled at them to stop they both took off running, going northbound through the gangway and onto School Street. (R. 140; 1189-1190) Lotts then ran back to the police car, where Officer Lopresti had gone. (R. 143; 1190) They were going to go after the two defendants, but as they drove north on Paulina they saw them emerge from the mouth of another alley and onto Paulina. (R. 143; 1190) Defendants Knight and Morris turned onto Henderson Street, running west, and the two police officers lost sight of them. (R. 143; 1190-1191) Officer Lotts radioed a report of the chase, and they continued down Henderson looking for the two men.(R. 146) As they drove west they saw a male white individual, Mr. Charles Leroux, pointing south, and Officer Lotts saw defendant Knight in the front yard of 1727 West Henderson, running into the gangway between two buildings. (R. 144-145; 1192, 1175- 1178) Again the officers got out of their car and chased Knight into the gangway. (R. 149; 1192) When Knight fell and tried to get up Officers Lotts and Lopresti tackled him. (R. 150; 1193) Officer Lopresti testified that after Tywon Knight had been handcuffed he went after defendant Morris, who had run into the alley south of Henderson. (R. 186-187;1224) There he met Officer Conley. (R. 1224) They were in the alley for about 30 seconds when they saw defendant Morris run out from behind some garbage cans. Lopresti shouted at him to stop, but Morris kept running. (R. 187; 1225) Defendant ran through another gangway, toward School Street. (R. 188) Defendant crossed School and entered a yard, and Lopresti lost sight of him for about 20 or 30 seconds. (R. 189) They eventually found defendant in a garage, hiding under some debris. (R. 191; 1225-1227) Officer Lopresti testified at the hearing that they had wanted to detain both defendants for 4
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