Court Opinion

ID: 9685657
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 14:55:40.360938+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:08.996882
License: Public Domain

Robert W. Hansen, J.
(concurring). The court majority sets forth facts and factors in this record that *125relate to reasonableness of penalty. This writer would go further to meet the issue raised on this appeal as to the penalty imposed by the commission being excessive. I would hold, on this record, that the penalty imposed, suspension for one hundred eighty days, was excessive and unreasonable. To the suggestion that listing mitigating factors tells the board what it knows and what it presumably took into consideration in fixing the penalty, the answer: if it did so, not sufficiently so. The rehearing, if rehearing there be, will, of course, be an entirely new ball game. But as to the record established, at the hearing held, on the issue raised, the writer would hold the outer limits of reasonableness of penalty would have been reached by a thirty or sixty day suspension.