About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

LOG IN
LOG IN


53 San Diego L. Rev. 369 (2016)
Sealing and Destruction of Criminal Records for the Factually Innocent: A Second Chance for California Penal Code Section 851.8

handle is hein.journals/sanlr53 and id is 389 raw text is: Sealing and Destruction of Criminal Records for the Factually Innocent: A Second Chance for California Penal Code Section 851.8 IRINA FOX* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. CRIMINAL RECORDS AND THEIR EXPUNGEMENT IN GENERAL ................... 373 A. California Law Governing Criminal Record Retention and Dissemination .........................................................................373 B. Society's Interest in Preservation of Criminal Records ................. 377 C. Policy Justifying Expungem ent ......................................................381 II. PENAL CODE SECTION 851.8: PROCEDURE AND ITS APPLICATION............. 388 A. Procedure for Petitioners Arrested but Never Charged with a Crime ..........................................................................................390 B. Procedure for Petitioners Charged with a Crime but N ever C onvicted .......................................................................39 1 C . C o u rt F iling ................................................................................... 3 9 2 D . The Factual Innocence H earing ....................................................394 1. Standard for a Finding of Factual Innocence and B urden of P roof ......................................................................394 a. Definition of Reasonable Cause .................................395 b. Jury Acquittal Does Not Result in an Automatic Finding of Factual Innocence ......................................... 398 c. Dismissal or Acquittal for Technical Reasons Does Not Justify a Finding of Factual Innocence ....................399 * ( 2016 Irma Fox. Assistant Professor of Law, Creighton University School of Law. Many thanks to Shane Beasley for the countless hours of research assistance, and to Patrick Borchers, Raneta Mack, Richard Foreman, and Joseph Eden for their comments on an earlier draft of this Article. 369