D.K.B. v. People

Opinion by

Judge SMITH.

D.K.B. appeals the district court’s summary order denying his petition for an order to seal the arrest and criminal records relating to his conviction for voluntary manslaughter. We reverse and remand with directions.

In 1969, D.K.B. pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter. He was fully discharged from the Department of Corrections in 1973. And, in 1990, alleging no further arrest or criminal record and that he was a productive member of society, the defendant filed the above petition, requesting a hearing on the issue of whether his privacy interest in having the records…