D.A. v. State of Indiana

NAJAM, Judge.

Statement of the Case

[1] D.A. appeals the trial court’s denial of ;his request to ..apply ■ an expungement order to the records of a civil forfeiture proceeding that arose from the same facts underlying- his now-expunged convictions. D.A. raises a single issue for our review, which is an issue of first impression: whether our expungement statutes apply to.the records of civil forfeiture-proceedings. -.We hold - that, on these facts, the trial court erred when it did not apply the expungement order to the records of D.A.’s civil forfeiture proceeding.1

Facts and Procedural History

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