Case ID: so2d_545/html/0537-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LEMMON, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jimmy GRAY v. DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
    No. 89-C-1282.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 30, 1989.
   In re Police Dept, of; — Defendants); Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, No. 88CA-2574; Parish of Orleans Civil Service Commission No. 3421.

Prior report: La.App., 543 So.2d 525.

Granted. Judgment of the Court of Appeal is reversed. Case remanded to the Civil Service Commission to permit both parties to put on additional evidence.

LEMMON, J.,

concurs. Medical evidence on the effects of respondent’s blood alcohol content level may be introduced on remand because the Civil Service Commission erroneously took cognizance of the statutory presumption in a civil case. After introduction of the additional evidence, the Civil Service Commission should make its determination without regard to the statutory presumption.