Johnson v. Lansdale Borough

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Lansdale Borough and the Lansdale Borough Civil Service Commission (collectively, Borough) appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court) that modified the Commission’s discipline of George Johnson, a Borough police officer. Specifically, the trial court reversed the Borough’s termination of Johnson’s employment and ordered that he be reinstated after a 30-day suspension. In doing so, the trial court held, inter alia, the Commission’s factual finding that Johnson made a false statement to a district justice and to a district attorney…