Legal Opinion
Spock v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 20, 1971No. 5860PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge:
These 75 appeals present the question whether, and to what extent, the courts of the District of Columbia have power to order expungement of the arrest record of a defendant who asserts mistaken arrest and exoneration. Necessarily included in that question is the availability of an order affording some relief by preserving the arrest record but in such factual completeness that its ordinarily feared consequences, both to the person arrested 1 and the government or its agent, 2 are eliminated. The precise factual setting for all the cases is not the same. One common…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Melvin Carter v. John R. CarlsonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1971
- Don Morrow v. District of Columbia, in the Matter of Harry T. Alexander, Judge, District of Columbia Court of General SessionsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Dale B. Menard v. John N. Mitchell and John Edgar HooverCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
- Louis R. Hutcherson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Nancy Sullivan v. C. Francis Murphy, Corporation Counsel of the District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Loder v. Municipal CourtCalifornia Supreme Court · 1976
- Davidson v. DillSupreme Court of Colorado · 1972
- McIntosh v. WashingtonDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- John Brent Tarlton, Jr. v. William B. Saxbe, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1974
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