Fossey v. Dade County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that by entering a nolo contendere plea, a defendant does not admit guilt, and such a plea “has no effect beyond the particular case”
• affirming denial of a petition for expungement of nolo contendere plea where the Commonwealth wished to retain petitioner’s arrest record due to the serious nature of the criminal charges
• affirming denial of expungement of defendant who pled nolo contendere but mentally ill
• noting, “[w]here a defendant is convicted of a crime, he is not entitled to expungement of that crime, except as outlined by 18 Pa.C.S. § 9122, which is an extensive statutory provision governing expungement[]”
• “It is well established that a plea of nolo contendere is treated as a guilty plea in terms of its effect upon a given case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).