Judge reverses Mason deputy's termination | West Virginia Record

Judge reverses Mason deputy's termination West Virginia Record: Judge reverses Mason deputy's termination
12/21/2011 7:57 AM By Lawrence Smith -Mason Bureau

POINT PLEASANT - Finding that he was not afforded the opportunity of a pre-disciplinary hearing as required by state law, a judge has reversed a civil service panel's decision upholding the termination of a Mason County sheriff's deputy.

Judge Thomas C. Evans III ruled that the county Deputy Sheriff's Civil Service Commission erred in affirming Sheriff David Anthony II's decision firing Robert H. Glenn earlier this year. In his Dec. 8 order, Evans said the state Supreme Court made clear in a 2009 decision that prior to taking any disciplinary action, especially termination, against a deputy, the sheriff is duty bound to provide him or her a hearing prior to the case going before the Commission.

"The Court finds Appellant [Glenn] was denied his statutory right to notice of a pre-disciplinary hearing under W. Va. Code �7-14C-3," Evans said in his ruling.