Professional Standards Commission v. Valentine

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

Following the superior court’s reversal of its decision to suspend the teaching license of Mitchell Valentine for a six-month period, the Professional Standards Commission (PSC) appeals, contending that the superior court failed both to give appropriate deference to PSC’s findings of fact and to use the appropriate standard of review. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.

The record shows that, on October 16, 2001, the PSC entered an order reprimanding Valentine for a DUI arrest and subjecting him to monitoring for a period of one year. During that year,…