Legal Opinion
In Re Smith
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided April 9, 1999No. 97-417PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSkoglund, J.
The State appeals the Washington Superior Court’s remand of the Board of Nursing’s decision to suspend the nursing license of appellee, home-health nurse Trudy Smith. The superior court remanded the case, ordering the Board to apply a clear and convincing standard of proof, rather than preponderance of the evidence, and on remand to exclude from consideration hearsay evidence presented by the State in the suspension hearing. We reverse and reinstate the Board’s decision.
Appellee served as the primary home-health nurse for two elderly patients, L. and M., who accused her of taking some of…
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