No. 25-411

John Doe v. Illinois

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2025-10-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response WaivedRelisted (2)
Tags: criminal-records due-process expungement-rights fourteenth-amendment state-action statutory-interpretation
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-11-07 (distributed 2 times)
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Does the Illinois scheme for the sealing and expungement of criminal records create, confer, or otherwise entail an interest protected under the Fourteenth Amendment?

2. Can Illinois impose anything more than minimal procedures on a petitioner seeking expungement of criminal records when that petitioner meets the statutory requirements for relief and has been adjudged guilty of no crime?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does the Illinois criminal record expungement scheme create a protected property or liberty interest under the Fourteenth Amendment when a petitioner meets statutory requirements but is denied relief?

Docket Entries

2025-11-10
Petition DENIED.
2025-10-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
2025-10-16
Waiver of right of respondent Illinois to respond filed.
2025-10-06
Motion (25M1) Granted.
2025-07-23
Motion (25M1) DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 5, 2025)
2025-06-24
Motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under seal with redacted copies for the public record filed.

Attorneys

Illinois
Katherine Marie DoerschOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Respondent