The guy who sued for the records stated in his complaint that there were two sources, a federal and a local LEO, who said that there was a second degree murder in his juvey records.
He didn’t say that it was a “conviction.”
And how is the lawyer for the family court allowed to disclose whether Brown had convictions or not prior to Brown’s records being unsealed? Isn’t she in violation of the law by speaking about what is in them prior to unsealing?
My reading of the article, is that she said the serious felonies” of 1st and 2nd degree murder by a juvenile would require being “charged as an adult” and that would be disclosed in public records. She deduced that absent such items in the public record, Brown’s sealed juvenile records would not contain murder charges. Apparently murder crosses some sort of threshold in MO, if she is correct. In most states, seeking to charge juveniles as adults is a prosecutor’s option based on circumstances — not automatic based on the type of crime. Whether Brown’s juvenile record contains any criminal history at all was not disclosed — the judge is considering the request and pondering what the grief she will take if she allows inconvenient truths to see the light of day.