Lying Ticket-Quota Cop

High court in Mississippi says state trooper who issued 25 bogus tickets should never have been reinstated with full back pay.

A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer who issued bogus traffic citations to meet his ticket quota was fired on Friday by the state supreme court. All nine justices agreed that the department was right to terminate Sammy William Ray and that the state Court of Appeals was wrong to intervene to give him his job back, with full back pay.

Ray was a six-year veteran trooper in 2009 when a routine audit revealed that he had been responsible for an unusually high number of reweighing the evidence and substituting its own judgment,” the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday. “We find that Ray’s due process rights were not violated… he was afforded an opportunity to be heard, and he indeed was heard.”

The final ruling upheld Ray’s firing. A copy of the opinion is available in a 120k PDF file at the source link below.

Source: Ray v. Mississippi Dept. Public Safety (Mississippi Supreme Court, 8/14/2015)

Reprinted with permission from TheNewspaper.com.