Crawford v. Dist. of Columbia

I respectfully dissent from my colleagues' remand to flesh out an already fleshy post-trial, pre-verdict monologue. Despite no request for a special verdict, the trial judge, none-the-less, delivered a prolonged and rambling monologue in which she discredited the officers' testimony about hearing and seeing a crash. She also went into her personal experiences driving and parking in this city. She then dwelt on Crawford's testimony and concluded that "perhaps" and "maybe" he did not have knowledge or cause to know that he collided with the other parked car. She described the testimony of the…