Commonwealth v. Romeo

OPINION BY

STEVENS, P.J.E.:

John Romeo (“Appellant”) appeals from the order entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County denying his motion to expunge the record of his 32 year-old conviction for third-degree felony criminal trespass. He claims the court’s reliance on statutory law prohibiting ex-pungement of conviction history under his circumstances 1 deprived him of his due process right to a judicial assessment of his interest in avoiding harm attendant to maintenance of the conviction record against the Commonwealth’s interest in preserving the record. Guided by decisional law…