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SPOCK v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 5860.

283 A.2d 14 (1971)

Benjamin McLane SPOCK et al., Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 20, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Rogers, Washington, D. C., with whom William H. Allen, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants. Ralph J. Temple, Washington, D. C., American Civil Liberties Union Fund, was also on the brief for appellants. R. Raymond Twohig, Jr., Washington, D. C., entered an appearance for appellants.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and REILLY, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

These 75 appeals present the question whether, and to what extent, the courts of the District of Columbia have power to order expungement of the arrest record of a defendant who asserts mistaken arrest and exoneration. Necessarily included in that question is the availability of an order affording some relief by preserving the arrest record but in such factual completeness that its ordinarily feared consequences, both to the person arrested...

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