State v. Sobie

This petition for certiorari by the State seeks review of an order of the trial court expunging the record of defendant’s arrest for public drunkenness, unlawful possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of barbiturates, to which he entered a plea of nolo contendere.

It affirmatively appears that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law in its order dated June 23, 1976, where it found that the defendant was entitled to the statutory right of ex-pungement inasmuch as it affirmatively appears from the record in this case that the defendant, Robert Sobie, had…