Commonwealth v. Briley

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for expungement of an arrest record. The appeal was originally argued before a three-judge panel of this court, but because of the importance of the issues raised and a potential conflict in our cases, reargument before the court en banc was ordered. Having heard reargument, for the reasons stated below we now reverse.

On May 28, 1975, appellant was arrested and charged with aggravated assault upon a police officer, resisting arrest, and failure of a disorderly person to disperse. Appellant was one of a large number of persons…