State of Louisiana v. Leonard Cardenas, III

liWe granted the state’s application to review the decision of the First Circuit affirming the district court’s order of ex-pungement entered in respondent’s case following the court’s set aside of his misdemeanor conviction and sentence for domestic abuse battery with child endangerment in violation of La.R.S.14:35.3(I), and dismissal of the prosecution under La.C.Cr.P. art. 894. The district court entered the order, and the court of appeal affirmed, notwithstanding La.R.S. 44:9(A)(5)(b), which provides that “[n]o person shall be entitled to an expungement if the misdemeanor conviction arose…