D.A. v. State of Indiana

On Petition to Transfer from the Indiana Court of Appeals, No. 48A02-1504-MI-215

RUSH, Chief Justice.

Indiana’s comprehensive new expungement statutes allow the expungement of records from arrests, juvenile delinquency allegations, criminal charges, and criminal convictions. Here, D.A. successfully petitioned for the expungement of his criminal conviction records. He then filed a second petition asking for the expungement of civil forfeiture records. Because the trial court correctly held that Indiana’s ex-pungement statutes do not reach civil forfeiture records, we affirm the denial of D,A.’s…