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Board removes unsupported paragraph from draft denial
Summary
Members agreed to delete paragraph C from the draft decision after several board members said the transcript did not support claims in that paragraph, including statements about the petitioner's shame or reflective remorse.
Board members reviewed a draft written decision line by line and identified language they said was not supported by the hearing record. One board member told counsel she did not recall the petitioner saying he "felt ashamed" and recommended removing paragraph C entirely; the Chair then asked, "Any objection to eliminating c?" and the board agreed to delete it.
Members said the goal of editing was to confine the decision to findings supported by the record rather than broader character judgments. Counsel relabeled and renumbered remaining paragraphs after the deletion and continued the line-by-line review.
