Court Opinion

ID: 9531237
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:09:00.475853+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:22.752169
License: Public Domain

Gunderson, C. J.,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent.
The prison’s security partially depends on concerned cooperation of the Carson City Sheriff’s Department, and of police generally. When an off-duty guard vulgarly and drunkenly vilifies members of the Sheriff’s Department, in a public place, I think his conduct jeopardizes this cooperation, so important to the prison’s well-being. Thus, assuming the language of *396subdivisions 5 and 7 of Rule 13 must be related to job performance, as the majority think, I suggest the evidence here justified the Warden in finding such a relationship.
In my view, therefore, it was proper for the Warden to find appellant had engaged in “notoriously disgraceful personal conduct,” which adversely affected the prison, and “conduct detrimental to the good of the institution.” Accordingly, I submit appellant should not be compensated for the discharge his drunken tirade precipitated. Instead, that discharge should be upheld.
Mowbray, J., concurs.