When a case is "sealed", what is it sealed from?
Can the police and regular people find out what the origonal charge was,
even if accused person was convicted of a lesser infraction?
How about potential employers? Can it be fixed so that they ONLY see the
convicted lesser infraction? Expunge is not an option in the case that I am
referring to unfortunately.
Thanks in reply
s_knight8 <s_knight8nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in article
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DENVER (AP) -- Dozens of previously sealed court filings and transcripts
of
closed-door hearings in the Kobe Bryant rape case will soon be released
to
the public after certain information is edited out.
District Judge Terry Ruckriegle said Thursday he agreed with media
attorneys
that there was no reason to keep the material sealed after prosecutors
dropped the charges in September because the accuser was no longer
willing
to participate in a trial.
No timeline was given for releasing the material, which will include
documents regarding DNA testing, Bryant's statements to investigators,
various arguments about evidence and expert witnesses, and transcripts
from
hearings on defense efforts to have certain evidence thrown out.
The judge said keeping court filings sealed made no sense because
Bryant's
statements to investigators have been leaked to the media and hundreds of
pages of case files have been released by the sheriff and prosecutors.
``Further, as noted by the news media, there remains a public as well as
an
academic interest in what occurred in this case as many of the issues
have
not been addressed in any reported decisions,'' Ruckriegle said.
Some details will be edited out, including the woman's name, information
regarding her sex life that was ruled irrelevant to the case, and medical
information.
