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In the common law legal system, an expungement or expunction proceeding, is a type of lawsuit in which an individual who has been arrested for or convicted of a crime seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed or destroyed, making the records nonexistent or unavailable to the general public.
Section 18 Expungement allows for the sealing of certain nonviolent felonies and misdemeanors. These records are still accessible by court order but are sealed from the public. Expungement under Section 19a allows for the expungement of criminal history if a person was the victim of identity theft and used that stolen identity to commit a crime.
There is no direct precedent for an expungement of an impeachment, and scarce analogues in American government exist. One partial-analogue was the 1837 vote by a Democratic-controlled Senate to "expunge" an 1834 censure of Democratic president Andrew Jackson. This censure had been adopted by a previous Whig-controlled Senate. [4]
Ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law, but the methods by which it is carried out are considered crimes against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention. [1] [13] [14]
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Many types of offenses may be expunged, ranging from parking fines to felonies. In general, once sealed or expunged, all records of an arrest and/or subsequent court case are removed from the public record, and the individual may legally deny or fail to acknowledge ever having been arrested for or charged with any crime which has been expunged.
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The Expungement clinic does not charge for their services, but will some times require clients to pay the court fees, which are around $250. The current case load of the Expungement Clinic is large, so it can take a long time to get response from an attorney, but their attorneys and law students provide services year-round for qualifying ...