*1 1227 (8th Cir.1982) comply 736, (awarding quired Safety with the AMC 738-39 F.2d 385-100, to contractor Manual AMC manual did not government contract of safety safety procedures.7 manual are discre railroad of describe Fur promulgation functions); ther, v. United delegate responsibility Blaber decision to tionary Cir.1964)(del 629, (2d 631 States, safety Chrysler 332 on a for was based indepen safety responsibility to egation perception by government negotiators that function); discretionary is dent contractor Chrysler prudent capable was a contractor 96, States, F.Supp. 546 Maltais United program.8 implementing safety its own 1442 (N.D.N.Y.1982), aff'd, 729 F.2d 101 cited in These facts establish that the acts Cir.1983) (2d (government decision to dele appellees’ complaint constitute discretion is a safety responsibility to contractor gate ary functions over which the district court despite govern discretionary function jurisdiction. lacked right inspect and retention of the ment’s above, expressed For the reasons work). stop is of the district court VACAT- to dele The United States’ decisions ED and the case is REMANDED with in- Chrysler, to gate safety responsibility to appellees’ complaint. structions to dismiss Chrysler’s only “spot checks” of conduct safety programs, and to not institute a
safety training program railyard work discretionary clearly type
ers are
§ 2680(a).
protected by 28
functions
U.S.C.
the United
The evidence established that
America,
UNITED STATES of
respon
safety
primarily
office was
States’
Plaintiff-Appellee,
safety
government employ
sible for the
ees,
plant by government
that access to the
BUSH,
William
Turner,
William
a/k/a
“spot
to make
checks” was limit
inspectors
Defendant-Appellant.
Chrysler security clear
by
ed
the need for
ance,
safety
that the United States’
No. 83-2147.
Chrysler
change
its
staff could not order
Appeals,
Court of
practices.
government’s safety
safety
Seventh Circuit.
safety
re
testified that
decisions
director
Argued
9,
Feb.
1984.
specific
plant
areas of the
garding
accident rates
those areas.
based
Decided Dec.
1984.
rely
“spot
checks” or
The decision to
Certiorari
18, 1985.
Denied March
along
accident rates to
review
with
annual
See
discretion.
contract);
discretionary
exception
incorporated
by reference into the
function
7. While
guidelines
States,
apply
mandatory
F.Supp.
does not
Barron v. United
1084
violated,
Flying
regulations
(9th
Acade-
(D.Hawaii 1979),
are
Colorado
modified,
Linda L. Jenner & ll., defendant-appellant. I Coffey, Judge, concurring Circuit filed COFFEY, Before Judge, opinion. PELL, FAIRCHILD and Senior Circuit
Judges.
FAIRCHILD, Judge. Senior Circuit Appellant Bush was convicted of armed federally savings insured loan association. Princeton, Illinois branch of a sav-
ings and loan association just was robbed closing January before on 1980. Tell- ers Karen Metternich and Rita Miller were duty. Ms. Metternich testified that a her, man entered and conversed with ask- ing to the directions restroom. He started direction, in that but then returned to the counter. through gate He came into the teller area and told the tellers this was a displayed He handgun. About that time a second man came in and stood in front of Ms. Metternich’s window. The second man told Ms. Metternich not anything. to touch The first man took money from the drawers. The men then directed the tellers to a closet and told stay them to in it. The tellers remained they until heard the back door shut. Ms. Miller generally testified to the same although effect she remembered that gun. second man had the Although the testimony recounting tellers’ the men’s acts and statements often did not ascribe them exterior directly the safe from an made clear into one, phrasing particular to a contained The smaller white box men chute. understanding both the tellers’ mailed and had been deposit tickets blank together. acting testified that Miller to the association. that defendant testified Metternich Ms. deposit tickets are of blank boxes white man, could not first but “resembles” top of the safe normally kept on the shelf man. Ms. that he was the state positively until needed. She to the blue box close *3 thought she she asked whether Miller was only explanation for the white indicated an- the men. She identify either of could robbery after the being on the floor box one, swered, I think with “The first don’t had moved it or that the two robbers was the sec- certainty. And I’m not sure about to the area of the bank dropped it. Access ond one either.” located is restricted to where the safe is fin and crime scene technician A state employees. There was bank accepted by the gerprint examiner employee an that Bush had never been expert in fields. About as an those court depositor. robbery he had secured after the two hours reached the It is clear that the two boxes the first from a blue box on prints latent through different channels. association from a white the safe and smaller shelf of things very highly it is im- the nature of the safe. He floor in front of on the box at time before the probable that some opinion print that in his testified mailed to the associa- box had been white print of defend a known matched blue box tion, together had the two been boxes from the print and a right thumb ant’s Bush han- location or channel some left thumb.1 matched defendant’s white box he had handled each of them or that dled Sufficiency Evidence I. of they in different locations them while were point is that principal Appellant’s prop- We think the or channels. dispel a sufficient to possibility evidence was not erly disregard the mere left prints doubt that things might happened, reasonable have and these doubt, course of the rob during find, on the boxes beyond a reasonable bery. them the course of had his hands on concerning nothing shows
The record As to the white history holding of the blue box. in so arises hesitation Our box, it was received very it shows majority distin- out of a decision is, It mail from another bank. guished court. Borum v. United course, appellant theoretically possible that (D.C.Cir.1967). Judge Chief the boxes on handled each of court. opinion have Bazelon wrote the manu- occasions their Skelly Wright earlier between concurred Judge some J. Justice, use receipt their and Judge, facture and Chief then Circuit now The Govern- savings and loan association. Burger dissented. contact was prove that earlier
ment did not
Borum,
had
con-
the defendant
been
however,
conclude,
impossible. We
housebreaking. A
collection
coin
victed
possi-
mere
so that the
enough was shown
during the break-in
taken
been
law,
compel, as a matter
bility does not
found on two
fingerprints were
Borum’s
reasonable doubt.
the collec-
had contained
glass jars which
prints
that the
There was evidence
tion.
that the blue box
Ms. Miller testified
“indefinitely”
jars
could have been
the associa-
ordinary envelope
an
box
years.” “The
period
Govern-
or “for
dropped
night deposits
tion used to catch
ultimately
suspicion
led to
of Bush
the offenses
January
Bush
1980.
1. The
occurred
compari-
concerning
issue and to
the offense at
trial oc-
was indicted December
fingerprints.
court was satisfied that
son of
hearing
a motion
April
curred
1983. At a
was first made avail-
tip
the relevant information
appeared
dismiss it
that a confidential
around Au-
authorities in this case
able to the
an
authorities as to Bush’s involvement
other
gust
1982.
between
city
and similarities
offense
another
conviction, the
upholding
no evidence which could
the defendant’s
merit introduced
for,
explained
suggest
or even
inference Ninth Circuit
that:
account
about,
custody
jars
or location
fin-
of the defendant’s
period....
during that
With evidence so
inside the
gerprints upon
battery
one
inconclusive,
person
a reasonable
must
might well
insuffi-
flashlight
reasonable
about Borum’s
have a
doubt
cient circumstantial evidence
survive a
guilt.” 380
at 596-97.
acquittal.
motion for
But when that evi-
Burger
Judge
concluded
was reversed.2
positive finger-
dence is combined with
majority
going beyond
print
upon the
Association’s sto-
requirement
proof
beyond
checks,
len cheek
its stolen
travelers
beyond
requiring proof
doubt and
all and
ring
tight-
of circumstantial evidence
every
doubt. 380 F.2d at
agree
ens
around
defendant. We
justified
with the trial
that it
sub-
Appellant also relies on United States v.
jury.
mission to the
Lonsdale,
*4
Id. at 662.
also
See
United States
Tal-
Lonsdale,
thumbprint
In
defendant’s
bert,
(9th Cir.1983)
710 F.2d
530-31
unlawfully
was found on an
uttered United
unlikely
(extremely
that out of one hundred
treasury
check
States
cheek. The
was en
bowling pins
innocently
touched
name,
dorsed
as well
with
murder).
the one used in
name,
payee’s
the
and bore defendant’s
security
social
The Fifth
reviewing
number.
Circuit
these cases
court in
a
only “truly damning
jury finding
guilt
found the
evidence”
made a
improbability
introduced
the Government was the
the extreme
theoretically
of a
thumbprint
possible
The court
cheek.3
noted
event and decided that acknowl-
prove
edgement
that the Government was
reasonable doubt
not
check,
compelled
law,
[just]
ques-
the defendant “uttered the
not
as a matter of
and the
properly
that he touched it.”
The
declined to
guilt
Ninth
has
find was left free make a
beyond
doubt as matter
in
a
of law
a reasonable doubt.
a defendant has relied on
cases where
Bo-
Appellant argues in
addition that even
rum or Lonsdale.
there is sufficient evidence of his
Scott,
there
partic-
is insufficient evidence
he
that
Cir.1971)
ipated
in
argument
was convicted of
The
has
savings
theft
a federal
and loan
not
fingerprint
placed
asso-
merit. The
presented against
counter, reaching
ciation. The evidence
him back of the
into the
fingerprints
touching
him at trial consisted
his
safe
the boxes. Ms. Metter-
battery
flashlight
found on
a
nich
inside
left
testified that while one
took
man
cash
finger-
at the
of the
her
anything.
scene
crime
other told
not to touch
print
blank
on a packet
on a
check and
of Ms. Miller testified that one
said
man
“We
money.
travelers checks taken
the theft.
In want
That’s
we
all
want.”
day, Judge
expert
handwriting
decided
3. The
In case
the same
Bazelon
Government’s
testified
opinion upholding
in an
concurred
convictions
there
no
were
similarities between the
housebreaking
for
because defend
signed endorsements and defendant’s handwrit-
fingerprints
objects
ant's
had
were
found
ing though might
purposely
it
dis-
in
been
from three to
owner's home
guised.
years
twelve
before the
Stevenson v.
break-in.
(D.C.Cir.
594-95
J.,
1967) (Bazelon,
concurring).
context,
months,
note that
testimony,
made
trator for five
we must
The .tellers’
yet
acted
in a criminal trial as
has
the men
a defendant
clear their belief
lineup.
right to an
no
in-court
concert.
Moss,
(3d Cir.
Testimony as
Resemblance
II.
Moreover,
1969).
testimony
Kent’s
Mrs.
Metternich,
asked Ms.
prosecutor
credible
unshaken after a
remained
anybody
in the courtroom
you see
here
“Do
by compe
thorough cross-examination
men
the two
today that resembles one of
arguments
counsel. Petitioner’s
tent
?”
you
day
on that
...
who robbed
arguments
properly
here were
which he
defendant,
Pointing
answered
out
she
jury during
trial. Mrs.
made to
objec-
no
him.” There was
“He resembles
neither so unrelia
Kent’s
.
she testified
tion. On cross-examination
ble,
fraught
possibility
so
nor
the man who
the resemblance was to
petitioner was de
misidentification that
bank,
that she
first entered
but
nied a fair trial.
inconsistencies
What
state whether he was
positively
existed,
properly
and not
suggests
Nothing in
record
robber.
reviewing
court to consider.
any prior out-of-court identification.
original).
(emphasis
F.2d at 755-56
sugges-
argues that this was a
Appellant
Fike,
decision reached
procedure which denied
identification
tive
question
possible suggestiveness
of law.
process
due
ultimately
the in-court
identification was
of an
question whether conditions
determine,
is consistent with
sug
so
itself
in-court identification
general
testimo
view
*5
process
a
gestive
deny
as to
defendant due
ny
jury weigh
is for the
to
unless there is
only a few
by
of law has been considered
very
irreparable
“a
substantial likelihood of
appeals.
courts of
federal
misidentification.”
v.
Simmons
Fike,
F.2d 750
rel.
v.
538
States ex
Clark
377,
967, 971,
384,
390 U.S.
88 S.Ct.
(7th Cir.1976),
peti
this court dealt with a
(1968).
L.Ed.2d 1247
19
corpus
of
based
tion for a writ
habeas
weigh-
The deference
shown
challenge to
part
a
in-court identification
ing
reliability
potentially suggestive
of
prosecution.
in an Illinois
Peti
testimony
identification would seem even
out-of-court
testimony
tioner contended
appropriate
more
for in-court identifica-
princi
inherently unreliable
Mrs. Kent was
present
and able to
tions where
is
perpetrator
of the crime
pally because
see first-hand the circumstances which
only
petitioner
black
was
was
black
influence a witness.
The trial court
sitting at counsel table.
in-court
petitioner’s
for an
denied
motion
At least two circuits have nevertheless
Illinois
held
lineup.
Supreme
Court
surrounding some in-court
found conditions
right
line
petitioner had no
to an in-court
a defend
suggestive
identifications so
finding
identifying
up,
race
be “a mere
rights
process
implicated.
ant’s due
are
Clark,
Ill.2d
People
characteristic.”
Warf,
387-88,
(1972)
N.E.2d
Cir.1976),
pros
the Fifth
held that a
Brown,
76 Wash.2d
(quoting State
attempts to
an identifica
ecutor’s
influence
(1969)). Writing
458 P.2d
directing
by pointing
verbally
tion
court, Judge Sprecher
this
stated:
coupled
when
the erroneous
witness
Although
person’s
prison
more than a
admission
record
race is
attribute,
although
prejudicial
require
as to
identifying
so
reversal
mere
not, however,
conviction.
court did
possibility
than a mere
of misidenti-
more
prosecutor’s suggestive
that the
ac
in the wit- hold
fication exists when a witness
during the
an
identification would alone
having make
tions
ness box is faced with
required
The Second Cir-
perpe- have
reversal.4
having
identification not
seen
impact
prosecu-
combined
of the two
emphasized that
it was the
recently
4. The Eleventh Circuit
matter,
farther,
tial
this is not an
recently gone
finding
cuit has
identification
in-court
overly suggestive
an
Ms. Metternich
case.
was unable to identi-
process, though
by itself violates due
also
Bush;
testimony
fy
her
finding
in the
the error harmless
case be-
one
resembled
of the robbers. While this
Archibald,
fore it.
States v.
See United
testimony may
process concerns,
due
raise
(2d
Acknowledging
Brooks,
see United States v.
any
suggestiveness
the inherent
in-court
(D.C.Cir.1971),
the impact of the testi-
identification where defendant sits at coun- mony
likely
great.
is not
to be as
table,
significant
sel
found
Nor are the
surrounding
circumstances
recognized
“the defendant himself
Ms.
suggestive
Metternich’s
suggestiveness.”
problem
there was a
as those in
or Archibald. There is
attorney
Id. at 941. The
told his
Warf
defendant
misconduct;
no
prosecutorial
evidence of
that he
seated with
“wanted to
five or
nor is there evidence that the defendant
reasonably
six other
looked
black men who
physically
stood out
him,
others in the
like
that he would
to ensure
not be
obviously singled
by
only suggestive
courtroom.5
out
educated wit-
circum
ness.”
court denied
Id. The trial
defend-
stance
identified
is that he
request
obligation
ant’s
no
finding
stage
sat at counsel table. This circumstance
lineup.
The Second Circuit found that
alone is not
enough
establish a violation
they “may agree
while
...
there was no
process.
more,
of due
Without
uncer
obligation
stage
lineup,
...
there was
tainty
Ms.
surrounding
Metternich’s testi
an obligation
...
ensure that the
in-court mony,
length
whether because of
of time
procedure
simply
did not
to a
[amount
since commission of the offense or the lack
show-up].” Id.
that the
Given
pretrial
of a reliable
identification or the
was the
black
the courtroom the
suggestiveness
seating
arrange
Second Circuit held that:
trial,
ments at
to consider.
request should not have been dis-
[H]is
Fike,
The in-court error uti- not, clearly sponte, responding any sua suggestive sugges lized here was so as to impermissible, be tive surrounding however traditional it conditions Ms. Metter may be. nich’s testimony.6 resemblance Id. at 942-43. We note opening also that his state- ment, prosecutors predicted
Those cases reveal no one of the basis for re versing identify defendant’s conviction. As an ini- both tellers would Bush as one of errors, black, robbers, along skimpy" torial with "otherwise evi- While Bush is as were the dence, prompted find a record does that he was not indicate Warf process. Montgomery,
violation of due
Code v.
black in the
as in Archibald.
courtroom
Cir.1984).
(11th
725 F.2d
The court
also found that a
defendant has no due
criminal
suggestion
reject
6. We also
defendant's
that his
process right
lineup.
pretrial
Id. at
&
object
trial
counsel's
failure
amounted
n. 4.
of counsel.
ineffective assistance
testified,
participants
other
they
weapons.
carried
When
two robbers.
Kress,
446 F.2d
Ms. Met- United
however,
colleague questioned
his
(9th Cir.1971),
denied,
cert.
U.S.
only in terms of resemblance
ternich
304, 30
92 S.Ct.
L.Ed.2d 264. See also
likely to
form
less
Miller in a
even
Ms.
1179, 1185
Marx,
485 F.2d
The record
an identification.
bring forth
(10th
indication,
if the
but
no further
contains
originally
some basis
prosecution
merit,
objection
had no
and Bush’s
advised
and the witnesses
prediction,
its
appellate counsel does not claim that it did.
not identi-
testifying
they
before
Rather, present
argues that the
counsel
Bush, except that
Metternich be-
Ms.
fy
together
“elements”
instruction
resemblance,
there
there was
lieved
permitted
just quoted
to find
one
less force in a claim that
would be even
guilty if
Bush was
they
defendant
believed
suggestive.
procedure was
in-court
merely present while the other man com-
III.
Instruction
robbery. They point
mitted armed
out that
“elements” instruction stated
four
instructed the
as to
The court
must
proved beyond
certain acts
be
a rea-
proved
elements which must be
essential
doubt,
specific
sonable
without a
assertion
the armed
of-
to establish
order
proved
must be
to have commit-
instruction
charged in Count I. The
fense
have
personally
ted
acts
affirmative-
requirement
three acts
listed
ly participated.
in-
willfully.
done
It then
such acts be
objection
if
has been
No
at trial on the
each element
made
structed
doubt,
argued.
ground now
Indeed the Govern-
beyond a
defend-
proved
reasonable
an
suggested
aiding
abetting
ment
in-
guilty
found
and that
ant should be
ignored
struction. Defense trial counsel
proved, the
should
not so
suggestion.
objection
guilty.
was no
found not
There
“elements” instruction.
to this
Federal Rule
Criminal Procedure 30
party’s
requires
objection
that a
to a
instructed,
then
The court
doubtless
“distinctly
state
the matter to
instruction
testimony as to
conflicting
because
objects
grounds
he
and the
of his
which
had the gun,
robber
which
objection.”
See United States
Verkui
necessary
it is not
that the Government
Cir.1982);
len,
(7th
652-53
beyond a
doubt that the
prove
Jackson,
States v.
personally
himself
used a dan
(7th Cir.1978);
1008-09
United States v.
weapon
committing
the rob
gerous
Gratton,
Cir.
show that a
bery. The Government must
1975).
general
objection
A
instruc
dangerous weapon
used
either
objection
grounds other than
tion or an
accomplice
defendant or
appeal
satisfy
raised on
does not
those
*7
of the
commission
offense.
Verkuilen,
Rule 30. See
I further note that the process due
the Second Circuit’s broad
holding ig- completely Archibald but the fact that the defendant in that
nores irreparable suggestivity case feared result- BUETHE, Plaintiff-Appellant, Scott ing from the in-court identification asked, trial, to before be seated with other approximate age people and skin AIRLINES, INC., BRITT Circuit, According color. the Second Defendant-Appellee. suggestive defendant fears in-court iden- “ No. 84-1116. tification, remedy ‘his is move for line-up order to assure that the identifica- Appeals, United States Court of suspect tion witness will first view the Seventh Circuit. description than in the others like rather Argued Sept. ta- sitting alone at the defense courtroom ” (quoting ble.’ Id. at 942 11, 1984. Decided Dec. Cir.1983)). Brown, (2d absolutely present The record in is case believed, in of any
void trial, anytime
advance of trial or
