District of Columbia v. Hudson

KERN, Associate Judge,

with whom YEAGLEY and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges, Retired, join:

A majority of this court in District of Columbia v. Hudson, D.C.App., 404 A.2d 175 *295(1979), agreed upon the equitable relief to which a citizen was entitled when he was arrested but not subsequently prosecuted.1 If he showed by clear and convincing evidence that the crime for which he had been arrested either did not occur or that he did not commit it, then the trial court was to seal all records of his arrest and thereafter such sealed records could be opened only by further order of the court upon a…