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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:20 PM Original message |
Should criminal convictions disappear from a record after a certain amount of time? |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. Depends on the crime. |
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Adsos Letter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. What Midlo said... |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
2. Some people do have minor convictions erased. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:28 PM Original message |
Yes. So should first marriages and embarrassing jobs you held as a teen. |
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murray hill farm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Good one sfexpat! |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. but then the profiteers of the prison industrial complex... |
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MindPilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yes, but it needs to have a very broad discretion |
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Hangingon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
6. Possibly for misdemeanors - if all fines and fees are paid and |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Depends on the crime, age committed, time passed since. |
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deadmessengers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. Some crimes, yes. Some, HELL NO |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nope. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:50 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Any reasoning behind that opinion? |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. They already wipe kids records clean where I am from. And those |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Well i dunno of the OP was talking about serious crimes |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. It depends on the crime, now having said that if an individual |
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Tutonic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. Many crimes can be expunged from one's record by submitting a |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
15. Those who want to hang the albatross of a violent event around the person's neck forever |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 04:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Even some old felony convictions should have a shelf life |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I agree with you. Your acquaintance is exactly the sort of person I was thinking of |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. I know this is going to be unpopular |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 03:56 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Isn't continued good behavior a sufficient character assessment in itself? |
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baby_mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Certainly the assessment woud have to be of some value. |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. I agree completely. |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. I disagree. If you kill or rape someone, that should be on your record and stay there. |
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Danger Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. It depends on the nature and severity of the crime. |
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mudesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yes, immediately after they served their time |
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LisaL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-13-08 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
22. Would you hire a burglar to work in a bank? |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-14-08 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
26. You can have some convictions expunged legally, |
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