Posted on 09/09/2014 3:46:13 PM PDT by Jonah Vark
A St. Louis County judge has just denied the release of Michael Brown’s juvenile court records.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch and an internet news site called GotNews.com asked for the release of records. In a hearing last week, a juvenile court officer said Brown had no serious felony convictions that would be public. Attorneys for the Post-Dispatch and Gotnews – continued to ask the judge for other records that would not be considered a “super-crime.”
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“no serious felony convictions”
Must be one of those not so serious felony convictions.
I would love to know the nature of these “non-serious” felonies the court has implicitly admitted to.
by definition, a felony is a serious crime
I’d bet the sink it was an assault
Except for the beat down of the shop owner he robbed moments prior to his noisy demise, of course.
So this is a news outlet being turned down. What if the defense asks for these records before or during the trial?
So, this is how this is going to go.
The group that riots, or threatens to riot, gets their way.
Fix====In====Holder!!!
The subjects right to privacy ends at death
He died ! ..He is no longer legally entitled to privacy !
especially when privacy is what the FEDs want !
Just more "IN-JUST-US " by the "JUST-US' Dept.!!
I looked at the order. No implication can be drawn from it, it’s just a pro forma denial of the petition.
True, but I was being sarcastic. Obviously the late M. Brown is not the one who wants to hide something.
Jack Ryan who was killing Obama for US Senate race got sealed Divorce records open and the rest is history.
but we need these records to show the world he was a “gentle giant”...
If the case goes to trial, the plaintiff will be the state, not Brown. The court will have to obtain and review any records and decide if they’re relevant. If there are any records and they just amount to character evidence, they’re unlikely to be admitted.
“In a hearing last week, a juvenile court officer said Brown had no serious felony convictions that would be public.”
meaning ... He has serious felony convictions that would be kept from the public.
Well, no. The state law that permits sealing any records of a juvenile when he turns eighteen have an exception that permits releasing records of convictions of serious felonies. The court was saying it doesn’t have anything that meets that exception. They didn’t comment one way or the other regarding the possibility of any other records.
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