Can a professional license be revoked on the basis of moral turpitude?

In professional license-revocation cases, involving revocation based upon conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, this court has considered the issue whether a license may be revoked on the basis of mere proof of conviction, without any consideration of the specific facts underlying the conviction. In these cases we have held: " 'Only if the minimum elements for a conviction necessarily involve moral turpitude and a conviction cannot be had without proof of facts showing moral turpitude, can the conviction be held to be of an offense involving moral turpitude.' " (Cartwright v. Board of Chiropractic Examiners (1976) 16 Cal.3d 762, 766-767, 129 Cal.Rptr. 462, 548 P.2d 1134, quoting Lorenz v.

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