Governing Board of Rialto Unified School District v. Mann

Opinion

TOBRINER, J.

In 1971, defendant Thomas Mann, a tenured certificated teacher employed by plaintiff Rialto Unified School District, pled guilty to a charge of possession of marijuana arising out of his use and possession of a small quantity of that substance in his private residence. Shortly thereafter, the school district filed the instant proceeding, seeking a judicial determination that defendant’s marijuana conviction constituted sufficient grounds for dismissal under Education Code section 13403, subdivision (h), which provides that “[cjonviction of a felony or of any crime involving…