This is a Complaint pleading for use in litigation of the title matter. Adapt this form to comply with your facts and circumstances, and with your specific state law. Not recommended for use by non-attorneys.
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When a court renders a decision of another court to be invalid, that verdict or decision is set aside; see also annul or vacate. The phrase is often used in the context of appeals, when an appellate court invalidates the judgment of a lower court.
A Motion to Set Aside a Conviction, if granted by the court, sets aside the record of conviction and the applicant is deemed not to have been previously convicted. The court orders the record of the conviction, and any other official records in the case, to be sealed.
A criminal conviction set-aside is an order by the judge who sentenced you in a criminal case which voids the conviction. It does not remove the conviction from your criminal record, it does offset it by adding the Order Setting Aside the conviction and a notation to the file.
Instead, Arizona allows a court to set aside a judgment, where a criminal conviction still exists on a person's record, but the penalties associated with the conviction have been released. Though the record is still accessible to the public, the record will have a notation stating that the judgment has been set aside.
A conviction set-aside does not seal records. In fact, the record remains. However, the set-aside dismisses the complaint. Also, it releases a convicted person from all penalties, except certain consequences imposed by DMV or Game and Fish. Moreover, the court record will not show “guilt”, but will show “set-aside”.
Conviction set-asides and expungements are similar but not the same. Conviction expungement seals an entire record of the conviction. Indeed, expungement proceedings result in the sealing of arrest records and court documents.
aside is sometimes called expungement or expunction. It means that the court record of a criminal or contempt case is sealed by the court and will not appear in official court records. You should be aware that setaside cases can be unsealed in certain limited circumstances.