Originally Published: 05 MAY 21 11:45 ET

Updated: 05 MAY 21 12:33 ET

By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Maria Cartaya, CNN

(CNN) -- Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer charged in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot, was wrongly terminated, the Atlanta Civil Service Board has ruled.

"We are very excited that the Civil Board says that due process matters," Lance LoRusso, attorney for Garrett Rolfe, told CNN in a statement. He added that Rolfe's reinstatement will likely take some time, but his intentions are to get his client back to work.

CNN has requested comment from the Atlanta Police Department and Mayor's Office but has not heard back.

The Atlanta Civil Service Board, in an order signed Wednesday, cited a number of issues with what it said was the city's failure to comply with its own code as a reason for overriding the decision to fire Rolfe.

In testimony heard in late April, an Atlanta police veteran testified that the dismissal "seemed rushed and sufficient time was not provided for the Appellant (Rolfe) to submit a response," according to the board's decision.

The same veteran officer said that Rolfe was told "not to be inside the City limits for his own safety" because of "heightened community concerns" -- essentially preventing him from responding to the city's actions.

Rolfe's dismissal may have been hurried in part due "to a press conference that was on the horizon," the officer assigned to the Internal Affairs Advocacy Unit, Sgt. William Dean, testified.

"The hearing brought out a great deal of information that the public had never heard before," LoRusso said.

LoRusso said that he and Rolfe will work with human resources as part of the reinstatement process.

"It will take a little bit of time," LoRusso said of Rolfe returning to work. "I imagine it will be pretty soon though."

The fired officer faces a felony murder charge in the shooting of Brooks last June.

Rolfe is also charged with five counts of aggravated assault, four counts of violation of oath of office and one count of criminal damage to property.

Rolfe's attorneys maintained the former cop was legally justified and acting in self-defense when he shot and killed Brooks, 27, who wrestled with police and took the Taser of Officer Devin Brosnan during the scuffle.

Video of the June 12 incident, which the defense has called the most valuable evidence in the case, showed Brooks running away and pointing the Taser behind him as Rolfe fired the fatal shots.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard alleged at the time that Rolfe kicked Brooks after the shooting and Brosnan stood on top of him. An attorney for Rolfe has denied his client kicked Brooks.

Brosnan was charged with aggravated assault and he was released on bond.

Rolfe's bond was set at $500,000 and he was eventually released from the Gwinnett County jail.

Judge Jane C. Barwick said Rolfe was not a danger to the community or a flight risk.

Brooks' death, two weeks after the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody last May, sparked protests across Atlanta, and the city's police chief stepped down less than a day after the shooting.

The arrests of the two officers was followed by days in which a large number of Atlanta officers called out sick from work.