An 11-state police officers association is supporting a former North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper’s case at the state’s highest court. The trooper is battling a state commission that challenges his “good moral character.”
North Carolina’s highest court will take up a dispute involving the law enforcement recertification of a fired state trooper. A state commission wants to block the recertification. It claims former trooper Maurice Devalle lacks “good moral character.”
A group that sets education and training standards for N.C. sheriffs wants the state Supreme Court to take a case involving recertification of a fired state trooper. The group opposes Maurice Devalle’s efforts to have his law enforcement certification restored.
A unanimous N.C. Court of Appeals panel has affirmed a trial court’s decision that a former state trooper should have his law enforcement certification restored. Tuesday’s ruling in favor of Maurice Devalle reversed a state commission’s decision that Devalle lacked “good moral character.”
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