Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District / Date unavailable
K.D.W. vs. Missouri State Highway Patrol Records Repository, et al.
K.D.W. appealed the circuit court's denial of her request for expungement of marijuana-related criminal history records under Article XIV, section 2.10(8)(a) of the Missouri Constitution, while granting statutory expungement. K.D.W. argued that her municipal ordinance violation for marijuana possession qualified as a "misdemeanor marijuana offense" and that her arrest records qualified as a marijuana offense no longer a crime. The appellate court affirmed, holding that municipal ordinance violations are not misdemeanors under Missouri law and that the expungement provision for offenses no longer a crime applies only to those who completed a sentence, which requires a conviction.