United States v. Larry Douglas Friesen

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• holding that expungement constituted an abuse of discretion, even though an acquitted attorney alleged harm “in terms of employment availability, reputation in the community, and possible denial of professional licensing”
• noting that, if the trial court found the “reasons” put forward in the expungement request to be “true” then the trial court should determine if they “justify the exercise of the trial court’s ‘narrow’ power to order [expungement]”
• reversing trial court’s order granting expungement of defendant’s arrest record where there was “no factual basis in this record” for the defendant’s “unsupported conclusions” regarding the reputational and professional harms that the arrest record had caused him
• attorney acquitted on all counts of conspiracy to manufacture cocaine was not automatically entitled to expunction of records
• at- torney acquitted on all counts of conspiracy to manufacture cocaine was not automatically entitled to expungement of records
• “[I]n Linn, as here, the arrest was lawful, and there was sufficient evidence of guilt for the jury to consider.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).