Appellate Court of Illinois December 26, 1979, 78-2059 (Oden v. Cahill)

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE SIMON

delivered the opinion of the court:

When an individual is arrested for the first time in life and no criminal conviction results, the fact of arrest nevertheless remains as a blot on the person’s record. An Illinois statute provides a procedure by which arrestees may expunge the official records of their first brush with the law. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 38, par.