Austin Strip Clubs: Former APD officer fights to regain job
After both cases are made, she will have 30 days to make her decision.
City attorney Michael Cronig tells Wolitz by law, she has only 3 courses of action:
1. to return Quintana to the force
2. a 15 day suspension
3. uphold the indefinite suspension.
He then says evidence will show the indefinite suspension handed down by APD is justified.
Quintana’s attorney Tom Stribling then makes his opening statement and says based on the evidence and prior disciplinary cases for DWI, the punishment does not fit the crime.
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Internal affairs investigator Sgt. Justin Newsom is the first witness.
He testifies on the night Quintana was arrested for DWI, he had been drinking at a sushi restaurant in south Austin and later at a strip club and had an estimated blood-alcohol level of .192.
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