State v. J.B.

Citations

• 2025 Ohio 3143

Syllabus

Expungement; drug test; trial court's authority; R.C. 2953.32; statutory construction; de novo review. The defendant applied to the trial court to have his criminal convictions expunged. At the hearing on the defendant's application, the trial court ordered the defendant to submit to a drug test. The trial court ultimately denied the defendant's application because of the results of the test. The expungement and sealing statutes do not authorize a trial court to order a person applying to have their records of convictions expunged to submit to drug test. As such, the trial court's order denying the application for expungement was vacated and the case remanded.