Culhane v. Denisewich

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Chief Justice.

This case comes before us on a petition for certiorari filed by the Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and by the State of Rhode Island, seeking review of an amended decision of a hearing committee convened pursuant to the Law Enforcement Officers’ BiU of Rights, G.L.1956 § 42-28.6-4, relating to the discipline of Trooper Raymond Denisewich (Denisewich). The prior proceedings and facts of the case insofar as pertinent to our review are as follows.

On October 1, 1987, Denisewich arrested two occupants of an automobile that he had stopped for…