A “Case Record” means all records related to your arrest, conviction and sentence for a specific offense. This includes:
The court’s “case record” related to an incident includes only charges that were actually filed with the court. If you are seeking to seal arrest records for an arrest that occurred without charges being referred by a prosecutor, you must specifically file a petition to seal those arrest records. If separate incidents resulted in multiple arrests with no charges being filed or resulted in multiple arrests with multiple filings, you will need to file a separate petition for each arrest or filing unless the cases were consolidated by the court into a single case. EXAMPLE: If you have 3 cases (that were not consolidated) with separate plea agreements, you must file 3 separate petitions.
The ability to seal case records under ARS § 13-911 does not extend to case records in the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.
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