Gardner v. Missouri State Highway Patrol Superintendent

BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

Corporal Wayne H. Gardner appeals his dismissal from the Missouri State Highway Patrol (the Patrol) after the Highway Patrol Disciplinary Board (the Board) found Corporal Gardner guilty of insubordination and of refusal to comply with a direct order to submit to a polygraph examination.

Corporal Gardner raises eight points on appeal, arguing (1) that the Missouri Highway Patrol and Colonel Fisher, the agency’s superintendent, acted in excess of their authority in dismissing him, because the record does not establish that the Board appointed to hear his ease was composed of…