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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
officer=/=offical?
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Official typically means someone elected or appointed to a policy-making position.
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he is not charged with a crime (that i know of) so how does due process come in?
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Like I alluded to earlier, the government cannot depive any citizen of property without due process of law. ("No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Fifth Amendment, US Constitution; and " . . . nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." Fourteenth Amendment, US Constitution)
This applies to more than criminal proceedings. As long as the officer is employed, salary is a property right.
(And all of this is without knowing what the terms of his contract might require or provide about leave with- or without pay pending an investigation.)