Price v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

PRESIDING JUSTICE McCULLOUGH

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff, Earl David Price, appeals a circuit court order affirming a decision of the Beardstown Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (board) discharging him from the position of Beardstown police officer. He contends that his discharge represents the impermissible imposition upon him of a second penalty for the same instance of improper conduct and that the board’s finding that he committed the improper conduct which formed the basis for the charges against him is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

Because the…