Gandy v. Department of Offender Rehabilitation

Petitioner Gandy seeks review of a final agency action of the Career Service Commission which sustained a disciplinary suspension ordered by the Department of Offender Rehabilitation. Although the record appears to sustain the charges leveled *1134against petitioner, we are unable to reach the merits of the case because of a procedural problem of due process proportions. The record reveals that during the hearing before the hearing officer counsel for the respective parties became engaged in a controversy as to the issues involved and the admissibility of certain evidence. Finally, the record…