Retired Officer With Violent Past Loses Bid for Leave Time Accrual

A former New Orleans police officer's workers' compensation settlement did not entitle him to continue to accrue sick and annual leave time after he took a disability retirement, the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. The city fired former police Officer John Auster in 1995 after he fired a shotgun into a car occupied by six teenage boys who had been involved in a fight with his son. One of the boys was hospitalized by the shooting. The Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office charged Auster with six counts of attempted murder, according to press reports at the time, but the cou...