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WARD v. STATE

No. 1237, September Term, 1976.

37 Md. App. 34 (1977)

375 A.2d 41

GARY LYNN WARD v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 11, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Paugh, with whom was Thomas L. Beight on the brief, for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Louis S. Lear, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before THOMPSON, POWERS and LOWE, JJ.

POWERS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Code, Art. 27, § 737, enacted by Acts of 1975, ch. 260, gives a person charged with the commission of a crime the right, under specified circumstances, to file a petition1 requesting expungement of both the police records and the court records pertaining to the charge.

The circumstances, listed in § 737 (a), are that the petition may be filed if the person charged

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