Walk It Through: The Old Conviction
A misdemeanor years back, an expungement, the cost cap, and the right to vote after a felony.
A woman has a misdemeanor theft conviction from years ago and wants it off her background checks.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
An ordinary misdemeanor and an ordinary felony. Offenses that can never be expunged, such as domestic abuse battery and stalking, and a pardon are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- InterdictionA court's order that an adult who cannot consistently make reasoned decisions be represented by a curator, in full or only in part.
- Crime of violenceAn offense with the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force as an element, or that involves a dangerous weapon, and the more than sixty the code names, from murder to stalking.
- FelonyAny crime for which an offender may be sentenced to death or imprisonment at hard labor.
- MisdemeanorAny crime other than a felony.