DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS v. SHOCKLEY

No. 2081, Sept. Term, 2000.

790 A.2d 73 (2002)

142 Md. App. 312

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES, v. Clifton Earl SHOCKLEY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 31, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michele J. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Francis J. Collins (Kahn, Smith & Collins, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., HOLLANDER, and JAMES R. EYLER, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This appeal from the Circuit Court for Somerset County involves the conflict between a public employer's right to insist that its employees answer questions relating to their fitness for public service and the employees' right to assert the privilege against self-incrimination. The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services ("Department"), appellant, asks us to hold that it was entitled to discipline...

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