A 54-year-old Springfield Township man acquitted last year in the 1963 murder of his teen girlfriend wants his record expunged.

        Michael Wehrung is scheduled to appear before Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker on May 22 to ask that the records of his arrest, investigation and court proceedings be sealed.

        If granted, court officials would wipe from paper files and electronic records any trace of the murder charge.

        Though Mr. Wehrung, an executive with a Fairfield roofing company, was found not guilty in the death of Patricia Ann Rebholz of Greenhills, he still could be negatively affected by the existence of documents relating to the charge, his attorney said Monday.

        For example, a criminal record could come into play when applying for a loan, getting a new job or in any circumstance where a background check is conducted.

        Typically, first-time offenders get expungements for relatively minor offenses. In this case, Mr. Wehrung would qualify for an expungement because he was acquitted.

        Judges grant more than 1,000 expungements a year in Hamilton County.

        “It's just a standard procedure,” said his lawyer, Earle J. Maiman.

        “It's for his convenience, so he won't have problems in case he gets stopped by a police officer or wants to board an airplane and is checked out by security.”

        Mr. Maiman and co-counsel James N. Perry successfully defended Mr. Wehrung against a second-degree murder charge in the beating death of Ms. Rebholz.

        Mr. Wehrung and Ms. Rebholz were both 15 and had been dating at the time of her death.

        Her badly beaten body was found Aug. 9, 1963, in a vacant lot across the street from Mr. Weh rung's boyhood home. She was killed while walking to Mr. Wehrung's home after a Greenhills neighborhood dance.

        The case was reopened in 1999, and Mr. Wehrung was indicted in 2000.

        A jury of seven women and five men found Mr. Wehrung not guilty after deliberating for more than 12 hours over two days.

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