Opinion ID: 2588299
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The New Hearing

Text: Cardwell next asserts that it was inappropriate for this court to order a new hearing where the first board's factual findings were supported by substantial evidence. This misses the point of why we remanded the case for a new hearing. It may well be that, in the face of conflicting evidence, the board may reach its own factual conclusions, which, if supported by substantial evidence are binding on this court. See People v. Quiat, 979 P.2d 1029, 1038 (Colo.1999). The first hearing board's factual findings and conclusions may have been supported by substantial evidence, when taken singly and in the abstract. But the problem was that the findings conflicted with one another. They were inconsistent and we could not reconcile them. We had no alternative but to remand for new findings.