Commonwealth v. Charnik

OPINION BY

KLEIN, J.:

¶ 1 In these consolidated appeals Theodore Charnik III challenges the trial court’s April 24, 2006 order denying his petition to expunge his indirect criminal contempt convictions and the June 23, 2006 order denying his petition to expunge his record of the order entered against him under the Protection From Abuse Act (PFAA), 23 Pa.C.S.A. § 6101 et seq. The indirect criminal contempt convictions arose out of two violations of a Protection From Abuse (PFA) order.1 Because section 9122(b) of the Criminal Code restricts expungement of conviction records to situations not…