State, Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles v. Taylor

FERGUSON, Judge.

This case was previously before this court on an appeal by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (the Department) from an order of the Career Service Commission (the Commission) which reduced appellee Taylor’s dismissal from employment as a Highway Patrol officer to a suspension. State, Department of Highway Safety v. Taylor, 456 So.2d 550 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984). We specifically rejected the Commission’s determination, in overriding the Department’s findings, that appellee’s mistreatment of a prisoner was not willful. We rejected two of the possible unstated grounds…