State v. Kokal

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that only the Legislature can create exemptions to chapter 119
• explaining that these statutory exemptions do not end until the conviction and sentence become final after direct appeal
• noting the state attorney’s admission that a convicted criminal defendant who filed a proper public records request was entitled to inspect and copy certain records relating to the state’s case against him, “including ... depositions.”
• pendency of post-conviction motion does not give rise to \active criminal investigation exemption\ under chapter 119
• “[W]e further hold that ‘the conclusion of litigation’ with respect to a criminal conviction and sentence occurs when that conviction and sentence have become final.”
• “[W]e further hold that ‘the conclusion of litigation’ with respect to a criminal conviction and sentence occurs when that conviction and sentence have become final.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).