Former court employee withdraws motion to seal conviction
A former employee with the Highland County Common Pleas Court, who was convicted in 2006 of felony charges of tampering with records and forgery, has withdrawn a motion for expungement.
Tammy Sandlin was convicted by a jury in November 2006 of a third-degree felony charge of tampering with records and a fifth-degree felony charge of forgery.
[[In-content Ad]]Sandlin had been an assignment clerk and bailiff in the offices of Highland County Common Pleas Court under former judge Jeffrey Hoskins. She was indicted in 2005.
It was alleged that Sandlin tampered civil court records regarding her divorce proceedings, changing the amount of court costs owed and forging the initials of Highland County Common Pleas Court Magistrate Cindy Williams.
Sandlin was found guilty on both counts and sentenced to five years community control, 30 days in the county jail and to pay court costs and $1,100 in fines.
She was represented by Chillicothe attorney Jim Boulger during the criminal proceeding. In December 2011, Bougler filed a motion for sealing the record of the conviction and a motion for expungement hearing was scheduled for February and later continued to April 11.
Prior to the hearing on Wednesday, scheduled before visiting judge Dale Crawford, the defense decided to withdraw the motion for expungement. According to Highland County Prosecutor Anneka Collins, Sandlin did not meet the qualifications to have her record expunged or sealed because she had a previous criminal offense. According to Collins, in 1994 Sandlin had been charged with passing bad checks.