Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education v. Brown

*1036OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

This case involves both procedural and substantive questions with regard to a tenured teacher’s dismissal pursuant to AS 14.20.170.1 The procedural challenge is based on the due process requirements enunciated in AS 14.20.180. The substantive challenge is based on the sufficiency of evidence to support a finding that the teacher committed an act constituting a crime involving moral turpitude.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Roy E. Brown was a tenured teacher at Kenai Central High School. In 1980 Brown was convicted of diverting electricity from the Homer Electric…