Public Employee Threatening Life of Police Chief Justifiably Terminated

In Turner v. Lone Peak Public Safety District, the Utah Court of Appeals upheld the rather uncontroversial determination of a local government entity appeals board that an employee’s threat to kill his boss, the police chief, justified his termination.  The fact that the employee was under the influence did not excuse the threat nor did the fact that the threat occurred in a private call with the employee’s ex-wife.