State v. Comeau

This interlocutory transfer without ruling, see SUP. CT. R. 9, from the Superior Court (Mangones, J.) concerns 1994 amendments, see Laws 1994, ch. 224, to the statute governing petitions for annulment of criminal records. See RSA 651:5 (Supp. 1991) (the prior statute); RSA 651:5 (1996) (the new statute). Two questions have been transferred: (1) whether the plain language of the 1994 amendments demonstrates the legislature’s intent to have the new statute apply to all petitions for annulment brought after January 1, 1995; and (2) whether application of the new statute to the petitions brought…