City of Birmingham v. Personnel Bd.

Gabriel McCray, a Birmingham police officer, was dismissed from his employment with the Birmingham Police Department on February 6, 1983 after a determination hearing held the previous day. The hearing was held before McCray's department head, Birmingham Police Chief Arthur Deutcsh, for McCray to answer a charge that he conspired with another Birmingham policeman, Donald Boner, to influence a witness to withhold testimony from a federal grand jury. The charge stemmed from a conversation between McCray, Boner, and a prostitute and drug dealer turned FBI informant, Willie Mae Harris Hogue,…