Kiner v. State Board of Education

SMITH, Judge.

This petition for certiorari seeks review of the respondent Board’s order revoking petitioner’s teaching certificate on the ground she “entered a plea of guilty to a felony, to wit: Manslaughter.” Petitioner killed her husband with a shotgun. She was placed on probation after adjudication of guilt was withheld. Although the Board’s order does not in terms recite that petitioner was “guilty . . . of an act involving moral turpitude,” her plea of guilty is prima facie evidence of that fact. Section 231.28(3), Florida Statutes (1975). No evidence was offered significantly mitigating…