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COX v. SHERIFF'S COM'N OF COLES COUNTY

No. 4-96-0088.

669 N.E.2d 1265 (1996)

283 Ill. App.3d 742

218 Ill.Dec. 739

Darrell COX, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The SHERIFF'S MERIT COMMISSION OF COLES COUNTY, Illinois, Susan K. Gaines, Chairman, R. Wayne McCoy, William Harrington, Larry Coartney and Charles E. Ramsey, members of the Coles County Sheriff's Merit Commission, County of Coles, Illinois, Coles County Sheriff's Department and James A. Kimball, Sheriff of Coles County, Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided August 30, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight H. O'Keefe (argued), Brown, Hay & Stephens, Springfield, IL, for Sheriff's Merit Commission of Coles County, William Harrington, Larry Coartney, Susan K. Gaines, Chairwoman, Charles E. Ramsey and R. Wayne McCoy.

C. Stephen Ferguson, State's Attorney, Coles County, Charleston, IL, for County of Coles, Illinois, Coles County Sheriff's Department and James A. Kimball Sheriff of Coles County.

Thomas F. Sonneborn (argued), Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council, Springfield, IL, L. Stanton Dotson, Mattoon, IL, for Darrell Cox.

Justice KNECHT delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Darrell Cox, a sheriff's deputy in Coles County, was cited for a number of disciplinary charges stemming from an incident occurring while he was off duty on March 24, 1995. A hearing was conducted over several days by defendant, Coles County Sheriff's Merit Commission (the Commission), which concluded on June 26, 1995. The Commission demoted plaintiff from sergeant...

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