Sepulveda-Hambor v. District of Columbia

KRAMER, Associate Judge:

In this case, the appellant, Sylvia Se-pulveda-Hambor, asserts that the trial court abused its discretion in denying her motion to seal records pertaining to her arrest for failure to obey an order of a police officer.1 The denial of the motion came following a non-jury trial where the appellant was acquitted of the failure to obey charge. The trial court judge that denied the appellant’s motion to seal her arrest records was the same judge that had acquitted the appellant after hearing the evidence in the trial on the failure to obey charge. We hold that the trial…