Mitchell v. Mulrooney

Petitioner, a police officer, with an unblemished record after five years’ service, was dismissed from the force upon charges (1) that he had arrested three women on insufficient evidence for an alleged violation of section 887 of the Code of Criminal Procedure; (2) that he had mentioned in his report that one Joseph Cortez was the person found in the premises at the time of his arrest although he knew that Cortez was not the true name of that person, and finally (3) that he testified falsely in the Magistrate’s Court concerning those three women whom he had arrested.

At the hearing' before…