Court Opinion

ID: 3682994
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:28:23.796037+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:46:49.283701
License: Public Domain

I must respectfully dissent as I feel the trial court's order was void. "Expungement is a matter of privilege, never of right." State v.Heaton (1995), 108 Ohio App.3d 38, 41.
As such, since the expungement procedures are remedial in nature only, no substantive right to expungement existed.  Id. The fact that the motion for expungement was filed prior to the amendment to R.C. 2953.36
is irrelevant since it was effective at the time of the Court's ruling. I would affirm.