Bowie v. Department of Police

SCHOTT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision of the City of New Orleans Civil Service Commission upholding the dismissal of appellant as a police officer.

The Commission found that 1) appellant had traces of marijuana in his possession at his home and rejected his explanation that these items had come into his possession accidentally months before and thereafter he forgot about them; and 2) appellant along with others had smoked marijuana at a party where two juvenile girls were present. As to the latter, the Commission noted that the evidence was insufficient to support a criminal…