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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]
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a ...
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Despite this expungement vote, historians still regard Jackson to have been censured. [24] In 2020, Brookings Institution senior fellow in governance studies and George Washington University political science professor Sarah Binder observed that despite the vote to "expunge" his censure, "we still count Andrew Jackson as the only censured ...