Legal Opinion · Dissent
Turney v. Civil Service Commission
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided April 16, 2009No. 08CA0215Published
1Dissent
*351Judge ROY
dissenting.
Because I have concluded that Denver Police Department Operations Manual § 8.18 (Ops. 8.13) is void for vagueness and violates the officer's rights to substantive due process, I respectfully dissent.
The hearing officer found, with support in the record, that Denver police officers receive over three months of training at the academy and fourteen weeks of field observation. They are taught to use lethal force as a last resort; put themselves in a position to act rather than react,; make the suspect come to them rather than go to the suspect; expect the unexpected when…
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