Legal Opinion
Smothers v. Department of Police
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 16, 2001No. 2000-CA-1518PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
|, MURRAY, Judge.
The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) appeals a ruling of the Civil Service Commission reversing Police Officer Eugene Smothers’s three-day suspension. We affirm.
According to the NOPD, the appointing authority in this case, Officer Smothers was disciplined because he failed to appear as a witness in municipal court in response to a subpoena. Officer Smothers, a five year veteran of the police force, claims to have arrived at court on the day he was subpoenaed but was told by a court clerk that he could leave once it was determined that the defendant in the case in which…
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