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My question involves criminal law for the state of: Ohio
I was falsely accused of crimes by a mentally unstable woman who I have since separated from. She accused me of these because I told her I was leaving her.
My charges have all been dismissed now and she has a warrant out for filing a false police report.
How do I go about getting the arrest and charges themselves expunged so that they no longer show up on court database searches, or when police run my DL?
You cannot make the records completely disappear, but sealing will render them non-public for most purposes. The threshold for sealing the court record is a bit higher than that for sealing the criminal record, but both requests are made through a petition to seal the record. See O.R.C. Sec. 2953.52, (B)(3)-(4). You may be able to get general or court-specific forms and instructions for sealing your record from the court in which the charge was filed (for example).