Legal Opinion
Smallwood v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 18, 2008No. 07-CV-851PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Per curiam
Sergeant Buddy Smallwood appeals from a Superior Court order affirming the Metropolitan Police Department’s determination that minor injuries he incurred defending himself from an armed aggressor while off-duty in Maryland were not sustained in the performance of his duties as an MPD officer. We affirm.
I
Smallwood has been a Metropolitan Po-Mce Department (MPD) officer since 1964. One evening in January of 2004, when Smallwood was off duty, he stopped at a gas station in Prince Georges County, Maryland to purchase fuel for his personal vehicle. While at the gas station, Small-wood was…
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