Re: Can a Court Record Be Sealed Without Your Knowing
Thanks TM, as always your answers are direct, insightful, and to the point.
I did not understand that circumstantial evidence and witness testimony was every bit as valid in the face of contradictory scientific fact (eg. no actual drug found, no drug making materials, drug dog did not alert, no recipes, no internet activity related to making drugs from forensic analysis of suspects computer, no GCMS evidence of fumes produced from drug manufacturing, no precursors found, no drug activity detected after months of undercover surveillance, etc). It just confounds me that charges and a conviction could somehow be brought upon a defendant in the face of completely contradictory and exculpatory scientific evidence. I used the term "factual evidence" because the defending lawyer said that was the reason prosecutors dropped the case. How can you make a drug manufacturing case entirely on what some one else says you did, the fact they worked long unsupervised hours in an academic organic synthesis lab as most chemists do, and maybe a descriptive pharmacology book on illicit drugs... beyond me. But that's not a question for this thread.
Thanks for clarifying the procedure for sealing court records in Michigan. The case disappearing from the court website still confuses me, it also happened with a civil restraining order case related to the same circumstances; so two cases mysteriously disappeared.
Out of curiosity, what sort of criminal charge would come from distributing materials from a sealed case with a specific order not to do so? Would that be a contempt of court charge, or something else?
Thank you
NVM about that last question... found my answer.
Re: Can a Court Record Be Sealed Without Your Knowing
To those that are quick to point out posting Hx on certain posters; thanks. I didn't make the connection between Q4L and the other seemingly connected thread of posts and topics. I was about to head down the rabbit hole and...I didn't.