Brewer says she did not ask for her son's file to be sealed

From the Arizona Guardian:

Days before Jan Brewer became governor, a judge took the highly unusual step of sealing her son’s 20-year-old criminal case file.

The timing of the January 2009 order by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines was not coincidental. Ronald Brewer was concerned about his past being revealed, embarrassing his mother and compromising his own mental health.

Gaines' reasoning, however, is a secret.

Now the governor’s son is doing battle with the state’s largest newspaper, trying to prevent it from publishing anything from the sealed case file, which a reporter obtained in May when a county courthouse employee simply handed it over. Even those inside Brewer’s inner circle agree that The Arizona Republic is likely to win the legal fight.