HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3565

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

Section 37

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

737.

(a)  If a person is charged with the commission of a
crime and

(1)  Is acquitted, or

(2)  The charge is otherwise dismissed or
quashed, or

(3)  A judgment of probation without finding a
verdict or probation on stay of entry of judgment is
entered, or

(4)  A nolle prosequi is entered, or

(5)  The proceeding is placed on the stet docket,
OR

(6)  THE CASE IS COMPROMISED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE
10, § 37 OF THIS CODE, he may file a petition setting forth
the relevant facts and requesting expungement of both the
police records and the court records pertaining to the
charge.

(b)  The petition shall be filed in the court in which
the proceeding was commenced. If the proceeding was
commenced in one court and transferred to another court, the
petition shall be filed in the court to which the proceeding
was transferred. If the proceeding in a court of original
jurisdiction was appealed to a court exercising appellate
jurisdiction, the petition shall be filed in the appellate
court. However, the appellate court may remand the matter to
the court of original jurisdiction.

(c)  The petition may not be filed earlier than three
years nor later than eight years after the date the judgment
or order was entered or the action was taken which
terminated the proceeding. However, except for an acquittal
on grounds of insanity, the three-year waiting period does
not apply to a charge specified in subsection (a)(1) or
(a)(2) if a person files, with the petition, a written