Carroll v. Goldstein

This petition for certiorari seeks to quash a decision of the respondents, sitting as a hearing board, which resulted in the petitioner’s reduction in rank from that of a sergeant to a patrolman in the Providence police department. We issued the writ and in response to its mandate the respondent board, hereinafter called the board, duly certified the pertinent records to this court for our examination.

It appears therefrom that petitioner has been a member of the Providence police department for over seventeen years, for more than twelve years within the traffic bureau and on October 28, 1964…