Collins

INTRODUCTION

Appellant Troy Collins was suspended for 15 days by the Los Angeles Police Department (Department) after the Department’s Board of Rights (Board) found him guilty of two counts of misconduct, neglecting his duties as a supervising sergeant and not following orders. Collins petitioned the trial court for a writ of administrative mandamus under Code of Civil Procedure section 1094.5 to set aside the Department’s decision. The court granted Collins’s petition in part, finding that the second count of misconduct was barred by the one-year statute of limitations under the Public Safety Officers Bill of Rights Act (POBRA) (Gov. Code, § 3300, et. seq.). However, the court denied the petition as to Collins’s claim that the first count of misconduct was also barred by POBRA’s statute of limitations, finding that Collins did not adequately develop his argument as to that claim. The court also found that the weight of the evidence supported the finding that Collins was guilty of the first count of misconduct. In this appeal, Collins contends the court erred in denying the petition as to the first count of misconduct. We disagree and affirm.

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