According to the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber (July 13, 2018) King County sheriff’s deputy Edward Hicks was fired on June 28 after a jury in Michigan found him guilty earlier that week of beating a man back in 2016.
Before getting hired as a King County Sheriff’s deputy in 2017, Hicks worked for the Detroit Police Department, where he was investigated for assaulting a man while on the job. The matter was eventually handed off to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, who charged him in 2017 with misdemeanor aggravated assault and felony misconduct in office—the two criminal charges that the Michigan jury upheld on June 25.
Hicks waived his right to a formal internal hearing with King County Sheriff Johanknecht on June 27, where he would have been allowed to respond to the jury’s verdict.
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From the article we read that Hicks was charged with misdemeanor aggravated assault (according to the Michigan Penal Code (750.81a), assault without a weapon resulting in an aggravated injury). The felony charge is because he committed the misdemeanor while acting as a police officer. Under Michigan law felony misconduct in office includes malfeasance, which is the doing of a wrongful act, misfeasance, which is the doing of a lawful act in a wrongful manner; and nonfeasance, which is the failure to perform an act required by the duties of the office.
It would seem that any conviction of a public officer in Michigan can result in a felony charge as well. So, should Deputy Hicks have been fired by Sheriff Johanknecht?
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