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Of sealing, expunging, and shielding.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

In addition to my own clients, frequently I receive calls from people asking for help to expunge their criminal records when I had never been in court with them in the first place. For my pre-existing clients, I gladly do the work where they are eligible for expungement. For the second group, I ordinarily decline, in part because I would need to charge (and often do not wish to do so) to overcome the case learning curve that the original trial lawyer has overcome, and because the work is too much of a thankless and sometimes tedious task -- especially if the expungement were denied --- unless I was involved earlier in obtaining the favorable result that led to eligibility for expungement in the first place.  Here is a brief rundown about expungement practice, procedure, and strategy in the state jurisdictions where I practice: Where I practice -- absent any statutory benefits for youths -- expungement and sealing is not available without no prosecution action, a dismissal, an acquittal, or, in Maryland, a stet disposition or probation before judgment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 25, 2009 (boomark / email).