The client carried a Class 2 Felony Dangerous Drug Transport conviction out of Maricopa County Superior Court from a 2021 case. Future First filed the Application to Set Aside under ARS § 13-905 and the court granted the application in 111 days, vacating the top-class drug felony and restoring firearm rights in the same order.
At a glance
| Original conviction | Dangerous Drug Transport for Sale (ARS § 13-3407(A)(7)), Class 2 Felony |
| Application filed | Application to Set Aside, ARS § 13-905, 2025 |
| Court | Maricopa County Superior Court |
| Result | Set Aside Granted. Conviction vacated, judgment of guilt dismissed, all civil disabilities lifted. |
| Rights restored | Firearm rights restored in the same order under ARS § 13-905(D). |
| Time from application to grant | 111 days from application filing to granted |
The challenge
A Class 2 Felony Dangerous Drug Transport for Sale conviction is one of the higher-class drug felonies in Arizona. Class 2 sits one step below the most serious felony category. The conviction kept showing up on every background screen years after the case wrapped. The client had served the sentence, completed probation, paid every monetary term, and lived clean since.
Drug transport convictions get flagged hard at employer screens and licensing reviews. The class level matters as much as the offense type. Set aside under ARS § 13-905 is the statutory tool that vacates the conviction and lifts the civil disabilities tied to it.
What we did
Future First filed the Application to Set Aside under ARS § 13-905 in Maricopa County Superior Court. The application laid out the sentence-completion record, absolute discharge documentation, the years of clean record since the case, and the statutory factors under § 13-905(A). The firearm rights restoration request under § 13-905(D) ran in the same filing.
Class 2 Felony drug applications draw closer prosecutor review than lower-class cases. Future First built the application to address the class level, the rehabilitation record, and the statutory framework in one package. The 111-day grant reflects what a clean Maricopa filing looks like on a top-class drug felony when the application closes every door.
The judge signed the order. Set aside granted on the Class 2 Felony Dangerous Drug Transport. Firearm rights restored. The conviction is vacated, the guilty judgment is dismissed, and the civil disabilities lift in full.
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If you have an Arizona drug felony on your record
ARS § 13-905 covers drug felony convictions at every class level. Class 2 through Class 6. Sale, transport, possession, and paraphernalia counts all run through the same set aside statute. Eligibility turns on sentence completion, financial compliance, the absence of new criminal matters, and the statutory factors.
The application is filed in the court of conviction. Maricopa County Superior Court hears the high volume of statewide felony set aside applications. Clean applications turn around in the 90 to 120 day range. Applications that miss a sentence-completion element or skip a statutory factor draw continuances or denials.
Set aside paves the way for sealing under ARS § 13-911. For a Class 2 Felony, the sealing wait is ten years from judge-ordered non-financial completion. The set aside step makes the conviction record cleanup possible. Sealing finishes the work once the wait runs.
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