Legal Opinion
Widomski v. CHIEF OF POLICE OF BALTIMORE CTY.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 7, 1979No. 511, September Term, 1978PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, C. J.
This appeal has grown out of a “Jekyll and Hyde” operation nefariously conducted by a few Baltimore County police officers assigned to the Dundalk area in 1970-1972. The Internal Affairs Section of the County Police Department supplied the answer to Juvenal’s 1 question of “who is to guard the guards themselves,” by uncovering the clandestine turnabout activities of those few police officers who used their shields as a license to steal. During the course of Internal Affairs’ investigation, it discovered that the appellant, Lieutenant Melvin Widomski, believed to be a knowledgeable witness,…
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