Transcript of John Dillon Date: November 13, 2018 Case: Montanez & Serrano -v- Guevara, et al. Planet Depos Phone: 888.433.3767 Email:: [email protected] www.planetdepos.com WORLDWIDE COURT REPORTING | INTERPRETATION | TRIAL SERVICES 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS 3 EASTERN DIVISION 4 -----------------------------x 5 JOSE MONTANEZ, : 6 Plaintiff, : 7 v. : Case No. 17 CV 4560 8 REYNALDO GUEVARA, et al., : 9 Defendants. : 10 __________________________ : 11 ARMANDO SERRANO, : 12 Plaintiff, : 13 v. : Case No. 17 CV 2869 14 REYNALDO GUEVARA, et al., : 15 Defendants. : 16 -----------------------------x 17 Videotaped Deposition of JOHN DILLON 18 Chicago, Illinois 19 Tuesday, November 13, 2018 20 10:13 a.m. 21 22 Job No.: 216030 23 Pages: 1 - 304 24 Reported by: Paula M. Quetsch, CSR, RPR Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 2 1 Videotaped deposition of JOHN DILLON, held at 2 the location of: 3 4 LOEVY & LOEVY 5 311 North Aberdeen Street 6 3rd Floor 7 Chicago, Illinois 60607 8 (312) 243-5900 9 10 11 12 Pursuant to notice before Paula M. Quetsch, a 13 Certified Shorthand Reporter, Registered Professional 14 Reporter, and a Notary Public in and for the State 15 of Illinois. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 3 1 A P P E A R A N C E S 2 ON BEHALF OF PLAINTIFF JOSE MONTANEZ: 3 RACHEL BRADY, ESQUIRE 4 LOEVY & LOEVY 5 311 North Aberdeen Street 6 3rd Floor 7 Chicago, Illinois 60607 8 (312) 243-5900 9 10 ON BEHALF OF PLAINTIFF ARMANDO SERRANO: 11 JENNIFER BONJEAN, ESQUIRE 12 ASHLEY COHEN, ESQUIRE 13 BONJEAN LAW GROUP, PLLC 14 1000 Dean Street 15 Suite 345 16 Brooklyn, New York 11238 17 (718) 875-1850 18 19 ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT MATTHEW COGHLAN: 20 MORGAN R. HIRST, ESQUIRE 21 JONES DAY 22 77 West Wacker Drive 23 Chicago, Illinois 60601 24 (312) 782-3939 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 4 1 A P P E A R A N C E S C O N T I N U E D 2 3 ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANTS ERNEST HALVORSEN AND 4 EDWARD MINGEY: 5 JOSH M. ENGQUIST, ESQUIRE 6 THE SOTOS LAW FIRM, PC 7 550 East Devon 8 Suite 150 9 Itasca, Illinois 60143 10 (630) 735-3300 11 12 ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT CITY OF CHICAGO: 13 THERESA BEROUSEK CARNEY, ESQUIRE 14 EILEEN ROSEN, ESQUIRE 15 ROCK FUSCO & CONNELLY, LLC 16 321 North Clark Street 17 Suite 2200 18 Chicago, Illinois 60654 19 (312) 494-1000 20 21 22 23 24 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 5 1 A P P E A R A N C E S C O N T I N U E D 2 3 ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANTS COOK COUNTY AND 4 JOHN DILLON 5 CHRISTINA CHOJNACKI, ESQUIRE 6 JULIE NIKOLAEVSKAYA, ESQUIRE 7 OFFICE OF THE COOK COUNTY STATE'S ATTORNEY 8 500 Richard Daley Center 9 Chicago, Illinois 60602 10 (312) 603-3473 11 12 ON BEHALF OF DEFENDANT JOHN DILLON: 13 T. ANDREW HORVAT, ESQUIRE 14 ILLINOIS ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE 15 100 West Randolph Street 16 13th Floor 17 Chicago, Illinois 60601 18 (312) 814-5484 19 20 ALSO PRESENT: 21 RYAN GRZELAK, Videographer 22 JOSE MONTANEZ 23 ARMANDO SERRANO 24 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 6 1 C O N T E N T S 2 EXAMINATION OF JOHN DILLON PAGE 3 By Ms. Bonjean 9 4 By Mr. Hirst 300 5 By Ms. Bonjean 302 6 7 E X H I B I T S 8 (Attached to transcript.) 9 10 DILLON DEPOSITION EXHIBITS PAGE 11 12 Exhibit 1 5/16/93 Supplemental Report 169 13 Exhibit 2 6/8/93 Supplemental Report 184 14 Exhibit 3 Vicente Handwritten Statement 153 15 Exhibit 5 Case Fact Sheet 127 16 Exhibit 6 6/2/93 Supplemental Report 182 17 Exhibit 7 SERRANO_LASSAR 1295, 175 18 Transcript Page 19 Exhibit 8 SERRANO-LASSAR 862 through 864, 177 20 Affidavit 21 Exhibit 9 6/2/93 Supplemental Report 192 22 Exhibit 10 RFC-SERR/MONT 000589-000594 203 23 Exhibit 11 7/7/93 Court Order 212 24 Exhibit 12 Court Order 253 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 7 1 Exhibit 13 Bond Slip 254 2 Exhibit 14 Certified Statement of 256 3 Conviction 4 Exhibit 15 Vicente Arrest Report 257 5 Exhibit 16 SERRANO_LASSAR 1779 through 258 6 1794, Transcript 7 Exhibit 17 SERRANO_LASSAR 1795, 261 8 Court Order 9 Exhibit 18 Police Report 268 10 Exhibit 19 SERRANO_LASSAR 24100 through 273 11 24102, Handwritten Letter 12 Exhibit 20 SERRANO 7692 through 7700, 283 13 Memo 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 8 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 09:48:29 2 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: Here begins Disk 1 in the 10:12:22 3 videotaped deposition of John Dillon in the matter 10:12:30 4 of Montanez v. Guevara, et al., Case No. 17 C 4560, 10:12:33 5 and Serrano v. Guevara, et al., Case No. 17 C 2869, 10:12:42 6 in the United States District Court, Northern 10:12:50 7 District of Illinois, Eastern Division. Today's 10:12:54 8 date is November 13th, 2018, and the time on the 10:12:58 9 video monitor is 10:13 a.m. The videographer 10:13:02 10 today is Ryan Grzelak representing Planet Depos. 10:13:06 11 This video deposition is taking place at 311 North 10:13:11 12 Aberdeen Street, 3rd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60607. 10:13:17 13 Would counsel please voice identify 10:13:22 14 themselves and state whom they represent. 10:13:25 15 MS. BONJEAN: Good afternoon -- or good 10:13:28 16 morning. Jennifer Bonjean, B-o-n-j-e-a-n. I 10:13:29 17 represent the plaintiff, Armando Serrano. 10:13:32 18 MS. COHEN: Good morning. Ashley Cohen, 10:13:34 19 C-o-h-e-n. I also represent the plaintiff, 10:13:36 20 Armando Serrano. 10:13:36 21 MS. BRADY: Good morning. Rachel Brady, 10:13:42 22 B-r-a-d-y. I represent the plaintiff José Montanez. 10:13:44 23 MR. HIRST: We'll start back here. Good 10:13:44 24 morning. Morgan Hirst representing Matthew Coghlan. 10:13:47 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM Transcript of John Dillon Conducted on November 13, 2018 9 1 MR. ENGQUIST: Josh Engquist, 10:13:51 2 E-n-g-q-u-i-s-t, on behalf of Defendants Mingey 10:13:53 3 and Halvorsen. 10:13:53 4 MS. CARNEY: Theresa Carney on behalf of 10:13:56 5 the City of Chicago. 10:13:56 6 MS. ROSEN: Eileen Rosen on behalf of the 10:14:01 7 City of Chicago. 10:14:01 8 MS. NIKOLAEVSKAYA: Julie Nikolaevskaya on 10:14:02 9 behalf of John Dillon. 10:14:02 10 MS. CHOJNACKI: Assistant State's Attorney 10:14:04 11 Christina Chojnacki on behalf of Cook County and 10:14:06 12 John Dillon. 10:14:08 13 MR. HORVAT: And Andrew Horvat, H-o-r-v, 10:14:08 14 as in "Victor," -a-t, on behalf of John Dillon. 10:14:11 15 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: The court reporter 10:14:14 16 today is Paula Quetsch, representing Planet Depos. 10:14:14 17 Will the reporter please swear in the 10:14:14 18 witness. 10:14:26 19 (Witness sworn.) 10:14:26 20 JOHN DILLON, 10:14:26 21 having been duly sworn, testified as follows: 10:14:26 22 EXAMINATION BY COUNSEL FOR PLAINTIFF ARMANDO SERRANO 10:14:28 23 BY MS. BONJEAN: 10:14:28 24 Q Good morning, Mr. Dillon. 10:14:28 PLANET DEPOS 888.433.3767 | WWW.PLANETDEPOS.COM