California Court of Appeal

PEOPLE v. CHAGOYAN, B160159

After dismissal of drug charges, the trial court abused its discretion in denying, without conducting an evidentiary hearing, a Penal Code section 851.8 motion for a finding of factual innocence and for the sealing and destruction of defendant's arrest record.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/03/2003
• Published 04/03/2003

Judges

• DOI TODD, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Kross, Oakland, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, William T. Harter and Marc E. Turchin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.