Town of Falmouth v. Civil Service Commission

Based on an incident between the defendant police *815Officer Mark Deutschmann and a sixteen year old Falmouth resident, the town of Falmouth suspended Deutschmann for 180 days. After a de nova hearing, the Civil Service Commission (commission) reduced Deutschmann’s suspension to sixty days. The town, as appointing authority, appealed from the commission’s reduction of the suspension to the Superior Court, where the decision of the commission was affirmed. The Appeals Court reversed the judgment and ordered that the decision of the commission be vacated because it found that Deutschmann’s appeal…