The statute allows an otherwise admissible prior conviction to be used for subsequent prosecutions as if the judgment of guilt had not been set aside." Russell v. Royal Maccabees Life Ins. Co., 193 Ariz. 464, 467-68, ¶ 15, 974 P.2d 443, 446-47 (App. 1998) (footnote omitted); accord State v. Green, 173 Ariz. 464, 469, 844 P.2d 631, 636 (App. 1992), vacated in part, 174 Ariz. 586, 852 P.2d 401 (1993) (noting statute "specifically authorizes the conviction to be used as a prior conviction in subsequent prosecutions"); see also State v. Key, 128 Ariz. 419, 421, 626 P.2d 149, 151 (App. 1981) (noting statute permits a person to be released of all penalties and disabilities "with the exception that the conviction may be proved as a prior conviction in a subsequent criminal action").