Three charges, one admission, and an appeals board that looked the other way
A fired Mississippi state trooper won reinstatement - then lost it because the appeals board skipped the one charge he admitted to.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals on October 20, 2026, reversed the Employee Appeals Board’s decision to reinstate the trooper, finding its analysis arbitrary for failing to address an admitted disciplinary violation.
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS) had terminated the trooper from the Highway Safety Patrol over three incidents spanning 2010 to 2018, each a Group III offense under state personnel rules - the category that authorizes termination.
The first, from 2010, involved an alleged assault. According to DPS’s charges, the trooper “pushed his way into the home and brutally assaulted” a man. He denied it, testifying no punches were thrown.
The second, in 2017, involved what DPS called “an inappropriate relationship with a fellow trooper’s wife.” The trooper was transferred and pulled from SWAT. The fellow trooper testified the relationship was physical. The trooper said it was emotional - but admitted telling colleagues otherwise. Asked whether he was admitting conducting that violated a DPS order: “Admitted it from day one.”
The third, in 2018, followed a restraining order on allegations the trooper had been “physically and verbally abusive” toward his then-wife. He told the board she had been “influenced to lie under oath.”
DPS terminated him,...
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