Juvenile court: Michael Brown had no serious felony convictions, did not face felony charges [View all]

[CatWoman]

Updated with information coming from Post-Dispatch questioning of court official.

CLAYTON • Michael Brown was never found delinquent of the juvenile equivalents of any Class A or B felony charges, and was not facing any at the time he died, a court official said this morning. The court was holding a hearing on whether Brown's juvenile records should be released.

Police said earlier that the 18-year-old Brown had no adult criminal record.

The Post-Dispatch had filed a petition in St. Louis County Circuit Court to unseal any records about him in family court, if any existed. Charles C. Johnson, a conservative blogger from Los Angeles, also requested the records be opened.

Johnson and others have claimed that Brown was facing a murder charge at the time he was shot to death.

Cynthia Harcourt, a lawyer for St. Louis County Juvenile Officer Kip Seeley, argued against releasing those records, but acknowledged there were no convictions for the most serious types of felonies. After the hearing, she told the Post-Dispatch Brown was not facing any serious felony charges when he died.

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