In re Adoption of Supreme Court Rules for Expungement of Records

ORDER AMENDING SUPREME COURT RULES

{1 In 1987, 22 0.8.2002 Supp. §§ 18 and 19 were enacted. Until 1998, it was not clear whether appeals from expungement orders under §§ 18 and 19 were to be lodged with the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals or the Oklahoma Supreme Court. In 1998, in State v. McMahon, 1998 OK CIV APP 103, 959 P.2d 607, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals determined that the Oklahoma Supreme Court (and on assignment, the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.1

1 2 In 1999, the Legislature amended § 19 by, among other things, adding the following sentence to § 19(C): "Any order entered…