Expungements Legal Questions

Based upon the information you provided you could be eligiable for the felony conviction to be set aside. You must have no more that one felony on your record and no more than two misdeamnors to qualify for the felony expungment.  I would be glad to help you. Can you give me information on where you recieved the felony conviction? ... Read More

Only certain charges are eligible for expungement in Virginia.  The case must have been dropped by the prosecutor (nolle prossed), or you were tried and acquitted, or it was otherwise dismissed, in order to be eligible.  You cannot have pled guilty.  If you think you qualify then you will want to seek an attorney located near you to file for the expungement.... Read More

Do you mean that you have already pleaded guilty to all 4 shoplifting charges? If so, then no, you can't get those misdemeanor shoplifting convictions expunged right now. Starting January 2018, you can hire an attorney to file a petition for expungement and represent you at the expungement hearing, but you will have to have a clean record for 3 years (for misdemeanor stealing) since the conviction date before your attorney can file. So for example, if you pleaded guilty in December 2016 to shoplifting, you would have to wait until December 2019 before your attorney could file a petition for expungement. Another option for you to consider If not much time has passed since you pleaded guilty, and if you didn't have an attorney representing you, it's possible to hire an attorney to withdraw your guilty plea and negotiate a plea bargain deal with the prosecutor for some or all of these previous shoplifting charges and get the charges dismissed or reduced to a lesser offense, such as "Littering."... Read More

This is an interesting area, as it involves your former criminal case (Facts don't state that it was actually expunged). Our firm regularily deals with licensing issues for professionals such as Nursing, Accounting, and Law. Should you wish to speak to someone about your manner and the course that we believe you should take, please contact our office and set up a consultation.    Best,   Nicholas Froning... Read More

If everything has been taken care of and you paid off all fines and finished any probation or other penalties, then you should be eligible to file for an expungement. While NJ does not use the term misdemeanor, I am assuming you mean you were convicted of a disorderly person's offense, which can be expunged after five years if there are no other convictions on your record. If the charge you were convicted on was a felony however, you may have to wait ten years. It is important to know exactly what your charges were.... Read More

Convictions are not eligible for Expungement.  Expungements are for cases of "actual innocence" such as where the charges were dropped or you were tried and acquitted.  Convictions will ordinarily stay on your record forever.  That said, I did observe a case once where a judge agreed to expunge a very old charge for a person where that was their only charge.  In so doing the judge even acknowledged that the court did not really have the authority to do it.  So never say never, but you would have to be really lucky to get a sympathetic judge like that.  As a lawyer I would not take someone's money and try this when the statute says it should not be granted.  But you could try it yourself and see what happens.  All you would be out is your $86 filing fee.   ... Read More

From what you are saying it doesn't sound like a felony. A first time retail theft with merchandise under $150 is a summary offense. If you pleaded guilty at the magistrate to a summary retail theft, it will stay on your record for five years until you can expunge it, if you have been arrest free in those five years. If you have been convicted of a felony, you can never expunge it and it will stay on your record unless you qualify for a pardon, which is a more complicated matter.... Read More