eBook details
- Title: Crowell v. Bilandic
- Author : Supreme Court of Illinois
- Release Date : January 15, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
Description
Plaintiff, William D. Crowell, a patrolman in the Chicago Police Department, was charged in a complaint filed before the Chicago Police Board (Board) with attempting to obstruct a departmental investigation into a complaint that plaintiff had solicited a bribe. Following an extensive hearing before a hearing officer designated by the Board, that officer and the Board on January 18, 1973, unanimously discharged plaintiff, concluding that he made several attempts to impede, influence and obstruct said investigation by personally contacting William K. Neal [complainant] and attempting to persuade him not to cooperate with the Departmental Investigation and in furtherance of his attempts to impede the investigation he did execute a written note wherein it stated in substance that William K. Neal notified Director Conrad of the Internal Affairs Division of the Chicago Police Department that the Respondent was not the officer involved in his complaint, and Respondent urged Neal to present same either verbally or in writing to the Department, thereby impeding the Department's efforts of achieving its goal of maintaining honesty and integrity within the Department. On July 17 the circuit court of Cook County, acting on administrative review, affirmed the Board's decision discharging plaintiff and on May 15, 1974, denied plaintiff's motion for a rehearing. The appellate court affirmed (Crowell v. Police Board (1975), 32 Ill. App.3d 552), and this court denied leave to appeal.