Lawyers for Ferguson seek any Michael Brown juvenile records

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7. The seals are meant for criminal cases this is a civil one though against the

police and city and the police and cities lawyers are probably doing this not because there is anything in his record but because they are probably hoping to be denied that way it gives them two other options.
Option one is they file to have the case dismissed due to being denied access to evidence to form a defense for their client.
Option two is they use it down the road after they lose the trial and file to have the verdict thrown out for being denied the right to evidence from which to mount a defense for their client though there is a variant of that where the city hires a new attorney down the road to appeal the verdict due to inadequate representation if the current attorney is unable to get these records to try and mount a defense on.

Edit: plus there is the option of getting the verdict thrown out later if they are denied access to the documents and judge later let's them in and the judge finds that the information could have allowed the city to mount a defense if it had been allowed to use the information in which case we are back to square one and a new trial has to be held.