01-3591 WILLIAMS V. CRIST

State: Florida

Court: Florida Third District Court

Docket No: 01-3591 WILLIAMS V. CRIST

Case Date: 12/11/2002

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA THIRD DISTRICT JULY TERM, A.D. 2002

HELEN B. WILLIAMS, Appellant, vs.

** ** ** CASE NO. 3D01-3591 LOWER TRIBUNAL NO. DOAH00-2147 EPC 00-0551

CHARLIE CRIST, as Commissioner** of Education, ** Appellee. ** Opinion filed December 11, 2002.

An Appeal from the State of Florida, Division Administrative Hearings, Education Practices Commission. Helen B. Williams, in proper person.

of

Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar (Tallahassee) and J. Wiley Horton and Julius F. Parker, III, for appellee. Before LEVY, GREEN and SHEVIN, JJ. PER CURIAM. Helen Williams appeals a final order entered by the Education Practices Commission permanently revoking her

license to teach in the State of Florida. The Administrative Law Judge filed a Recommended Order with specific Findings of Fact. Neither party filed After reviewing the

exceptions to the Recommended Order.

complete record accompanying the Recommended Order, the Education Practices Commission adopted the Recommended Order as final, permanently revoking Ms. William's educator's certificate. We find that there was competent substantial evidence in the record to support the finding that Ms. Williams was guilty of the allegations contained in the Administrative Complaint filed against her. "Competent substantial evidence is `such

evidence as will establish a substantial basis of fact from which the fact at issue can reasonably be inferred [or]. . . such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'" Duval Utility Co. v.

Florida Public Serv. Comm'n, 380 So. 2d 1028, 1031 (Fla. 1980)(quoting De Groot v. Sheffield, 95 So. 2d 912, 916 (Fla. 1957)). In the instant case, the documentary evidence as well as the testimony proffered supports the findings outlined in the Administrative Law Judge's Recommended Order and subsequently adopted by the Education Practices Commission.

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Affirmed.

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