Legal Opinion

State v. Garry

Ohio Court of Appeals

Decided September 21, 2007No. C-060976PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Mark P. Painter, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} In America, people are presumed innocent unless tried and convicted. In this case, the defendant was tried and found not guilty, but continues to suffer punishment in the form of a criminal arrest record. This we cannot allow.

{¶ 2} In October 2002, Brian Garry (known as Brian Crum before a legal name change) was charged with hitting a police horse. 1 After a trial spread over parts of four days, he was found not guilty.

{¶ 3} Garry applied for expungement of his arrest record in 2005 and again in 2006. Though Garry was clearly eligible for expungement —…

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2Cases cited1 opinion

State v. Schwartz, Unpublished Decision (6-24-2005)Ohio Court of Appeals · 2005

3Cited by12 opinions

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