Wright v. Tennessee Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission

OPINION

CHARLES D. SUSANO, JR., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which D. MICHAEL SWINEY and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

Former police officer Rodney Howard Wright (“Wright”) challenges the decision by the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (“the POST Commission” or “the commission”) decerti-fying him on the basis of his guilty plea in a domestic violence case that — after his plea was entered— dismissed and expunged. Wright contends that the POST Commission’s reliance on his guilty plea as the basis for his decertification violates his rights under the judicial…