Salters v. State Police - Commonwealth Coourt - November 29, 2006
http://www.courts.state.pa.us/OpPosting/CWealth/out/761CD06_11-29-06.pdf
A false statement on an application for police certification was alone enough to disqualify an applicant, in spite of the police chief's alleged advice to applicant to lie. Applicant was required to get a psych. evaluation. The first one showed that he was a "psychological risk." A second one had no such finding. Applicant mentioned only the second evaluation on his certification application, on which he made a verified statement that there had been no other psych. evaluations.
Amendments to the charges made more than 30 days in advance of the hearing wre held to not violate due process/notice requirements, citing general admin. rules of procedures, 1 Pa. Code 35.1 et seq., and the relative simplicity of the issues. The court also rejected applicant's argument that only agency heads who are attorneys can adjudicate administrative decisions.
