Court Opinion

ID: 4229894
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-12-18 22:34:40.410413+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:05:12.057333
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

STATE OF WASHINGTON,
                                                   No. 75743-1-1
                     Appellant,
                                                   DIVISION ONE
          V.

V.C.M.                                             UNPUBLISHED OPINION
DOB: 2/22/03,
                                                                                    cr.
                     Respondent.                  FILED: DEC 1 8 2017

       PER CURIAM. The State appeals an order sealing V.C.M.'s records

following his completion of a deferred disposition and the dismissal of his

conviction for possession of marijuana. The State contends, and V.C.M.'s

counsel on appeal agrees, that "[t]he trial court violated RCW 13.40.127 and

RCW 13.50.260 by sealing the Respondent's juvenile criminal case file upon

successful completion of a deferred disposition before the Respondent's

eighteenth birthday." Appellant's brief at 1. The State's contention and V.C.M.'s

concession are controlled by our recent decision in State v. H.Z.-B.,       Wn. App.

   ,    P.3d    (2017)(holding that statutes pertaining to record sealing and

deferred dispositions indicate that juvenile record should be sealed when case is

dismissed and do not prohibit sealing until juvenile's eighteenth birthday). In light

of H.Z.B., it is unnecessary to reach V.C.M.'s contention that trial counsel was

ineffective for failing to argue an alternative basis for sealing the record.

       Affirmed.
                     For the Court:

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