D.W.M. v. District Court ex rel. County of Pitkin

PIERCE, Judge.

Petitioner, D.W.M., appeals the trial court’s order denying his petition to seal the records of a prior misdemeanor arrest and conviction. We reverse and remand.

D.W.M. filed a petition pursuant to § 24 — 72—308(3)(c)(I), C.R.S. (1982 Repl.Vol. 10), to seal the records pertaining to his 1970 arrest and conviction for misdemeanor theft. At the hearing on his petition, he testified that he had served five months in jail for the conviction, but that he had not been arrested for any criminal offense for over 15 years. Petitioner also testified that he was interested in obtaining a…