The client carried a Class 6 Felony Theft conviction out of Maricopa County Superior Court from a 1992 case. Future First filed the Application to Set Aside under ARS § 13-905 and the court granted the application in 182 days, vacating the decades-old felony and restoring firearm rights in the same order.
At a glance
| Original conviction | Theft (ARS § 13-1802), Class 6 Felony |
| Application filed | Application to Set Aside, ARS § 13-905, 2025 |
| Court | Maricopa County Superior Court |
| Result | Set Aside Granted. The Class 6 Felony Theft conviction vacated, judgment of guilt dismissed, all civil disabilities lifted. |
| Rights restored | Firearm rights restored in the same order under ARS § 13-905(D). Civil rights restored. |
| Time from application to grant | 182 days from application filing to granted |
The challenge
Theft under ARS § 13-1802 charged as a Class 6 Felony sticks on a record for life unless removed by court order. This conviction came out of a 1992 Maricopa County Superior Court case. Decades had passed. The client had built a clean life on top of it. The 33-year-old felony still showed on every background check because Arizona does not auto-expire felony records.
The client had completed every term of the sentence years before the application. Absolute discharge had issued. Decades of clean living since the case carried significant weight under the statutory factors. The active conviction was the last remaining barrier and § 13-905 was the path through it.
What we did
Future First filed the Application to Set Aside under ARS § 13-905 in Maricopa County Superior Court. The application covered the Class 6 Felony Theft conviction. The package documented full sentence completion, the absolute discharge order, the decades of clean record since discharge, and the statutory factors the court weighs under § 13-905(A). The firearm rights restoration request under § 13-905(D) was built into the same filing.
Decades-old felony cases require sourcing the original case file, often microfilm or archived court records. Future First pulled the file and built the application with full documentation. The court took 182 days to move the application through review. The application held up at every step and the court entered the order on the merits.
The judge signed the order. Set aside granted on the Class 6 Felony Theft count. Firearm rights restored in the same order. The conviction is vacated, the judgment of guilt is dismissed, and the civil disabilities lift in full.
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If you have a decades-old felony Theft on your record
ARS § 13-905 has no expiration. A felony Theft conviction from the 1990s is just as eligible for set aside as one from last year, provided the sentence is fully complete and the client meets the statutory factors. Older cases sometimes require more legwork to source the docket and sentencing records, but the legal path is identical.
Set aside is the first piece of the cleanup. Firearm rights restoration runs in the same order under § 13-905(D). The conviction record changes from active to vacated. Background checks pulling from the Arizona Public Access database return the case with the set aside notation that signals the order has issued.
Sealing under ARS § 13-911 is the next stage. The sealing wait for a Class 6 Felony is three years from judge-ordered non-financial completion. With a decades-old case the wait is long past. Once the application is filed, the sealing order closes public access to the file.
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