expungement of criminal records

• Maryland Court of Special Appeals Case Summaries: March 13, 2011

Criminal Procedure Expungement of juvenile records

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• March 20, 2011

• State v. Clark, (Ohio 2011)

CRIMINAL LAW: expungement, sealing of records, first offender, hearing, abuse of discretion, harmless error, minor misdemeanor

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Criminal law - First Circuit holds federal courts lack jurisdiction to expunge criminal records on equitable grounds.

...Federal courts have ordered the expungement of a defendant's criminal record when the criminal...

• Suffolk University Law Review
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 2, March 2008

• State v. Mills, (Ohio 2011)

CIVIL LAW: theft of drugs, OMVI, treatment in lieu of conviction, expungement, sealing of criminal records, statutory interpretation, first offender

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Senate Judiciary Committee Sets May 21 Hearing On Expungement of Criminal Records and Use of Criminal Records in Hiring

To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS Contact: Gregg Warner, Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, +1- 717-787-6599

• U.S. Newswire
• May 17, 2007

• Gridley Man's Porn Conviction Expunged

BLOOMINGTON - A Gridley man took the final step Thursday in closing the record on a child pornography conviction that was reversed in an appellate court ruling. Jeffrey Shoemaker was awarded an expungement of his criminal records, a move that will seal all records related to his 2007 conviction on a charge of creating child pornography.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• November 21, 2008

• State v. Gross, (Ohio 2011)

Criminal law – Criminal records – Expungement or sealing of records – Failure to raise issue – Waiver – Presumption of regularity – Because appellant neglected to challenge the lack of findings in the record on appeal, we presume the regularity of the proceedings including the presumption that the trial court engaged in the requisite analysis under R.C. 2953.52(B)(2).

• Ohio Supreme Court

• John Doe, Appellant, v. William H. Webster, Director, Fbi, Et Al., 606 F.2d 1226 (D.C. Cir. 1979)

... dismissing an action to compel the expungement of all records relating to a federal conviction se... does not authorize the expungement of criminal arrest and conviction records. 2 For the reasons ...

• Federal Circuits

• State v. Severino, (Ohio 2010)

Criminal Law - Sentencing/Fines, Restitution, Expungement - motion to seal records following dismissal of charges; R.C. 2953.52; court must hold evidentiary hearing on notice to the state at which the court weighs the applicant's interest in having the records sealed against any need of the state to maintain the records.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Thou shalt not expunge Mobile Press Register, Inc. v. Lackey.

... Mobile Municipal Court from expunging criminal files and allowed the Mobile Press Register to acccess criminal records that were previously sealed. (1) Briefly, expungem... in exchange for the promise of future expungement made an uninformed choice between alternative cour...

• Jones Law Review
• Vol. 11 Nbr. 1, September 2006