City of Dayton v. Salmon

Grady, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to seal the record of a criminal conviction which was made pursuant to R.C. 2953.32.

Defendant Thomas L. Salmon was charged in 1980 with public indecency. The charge was dismissed, with prejudice, for failure to prosecute it in a timely manner. Records of that proceeding were subsequently sealed by the court pursuant to its inherent authority to do so. See Pepper Pike v. Doe (1981), 66 Ohio St.2d 374,20 O.O.3d 334, 421 N.E.2d 1303.

Defendant Salmon was charged in November 1993 with soliciting, a violation of a criminal ordinance of…