Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. D.M.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided May 21, 1997PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*771OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.

Appellee, a schoolteacher, was tried for indecent assault and corrupting the morals of a minor, and acquitted in a bench trial in the Philadelphia municipal court. He petitioned for expunction of his arrest record, which was granted by the court of common pleas. The Superior Court questioned the authority of Commonwealth v. Wexler, 494 Pa. 325, 330, 431 A.2d 877, 879 (1981), and affirmed the order of expungement on other grounds. We allowed this appeal to review the Superi- or Court’s application of Wexler and to examine the question of expungement…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. WexlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
  2. Commonwealth v. IacinoSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1979
  3. Commonwealth v. D.M.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1995

3Cited by55 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. MaglioccoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2005
  2. Commonwealth v. LutzSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 2001
  3. Commonwealth v. V.G.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 2010
  4. Commonwealth v. MotoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2011
  5. Carlacci v. MazaleskiSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2002

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