Jarrell v. The City of Nitro, West Virginia

FILED No. 19-0907 – Timothy Jarrell v. The City of Nitro, West Virginia March 26, 2021 released at 3:00 p.m. EDYTHE NASH GAISER, CLERK Wooton, Justice, dissenting: SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF WEST VIRGINIA The central issue before the Court is whether Sgt. Timothy Jarrell with the Nitro Police Department was properly terminated from his employment with the respondent The City of Nitro, West Virginia, for using a lateral carotid restraint 1 to effect the arrest of Jared Hester, an unarmed, nonthreatening individual, for public intoxication. The circuit court, in reversing and vacating the…