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Appeals court reviews suspension without pay for trooper tied to overtime fraud probe
Summary
The court heard arguments over whether a preliminary duty-status suspension without pay was supported by sufficient evidence and whether later full section 43 proceedings cured any procedural defect; the case raises civil-service, due-process and remedies questions including possible back pay and license-to-carry suspension.
The appeals panel heard argument in John F. Adams v. Colonel Christopher Mason (docket 24P236) over the state police’s suspension of Trooper Adams without pay while an internal affairs audit into alleged overtime fraud proceeded.
Assistant Attorney General Rebecca Krumholtz, representing the state police, asked the court to correct what she called a superior-court legal error and to reinstate the colonel’s suspension decision because the later full and fair Section 43 hearing before the colonel (under chapter 22C, section 43) supplied the enlarged record needed to sustain the duty-status decision.…
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