Commonwealth v. Persia

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• concluding that the appellant's age of 48 did not militate in favor of granting his petition to expunge
• Commonwealth provided expert testimony at an expungement hearing concerning the recidivism rate of pedophilic offenders and the emotional trauma suffered by their victims.
• sixteen-month lapse of time between arrest on child sex abuse charges and expungement petition, following nol pros of charges, mitigates against expungement notwithstanding absence of prior or subsequent arrest record
• sixteen-month lapse of time between arrest on child sex abuse charges and expungement petition, following nol pros of charges, mitigates against expungement notwithstanding absence of prior or subsequent arrest record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).