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Breaking good News  : Criminal Justice Bill passes unanimously
Sen. Jeff Jackson , photo courtesy Sen.  Jeff Jackson
This bill will reform our expungement laws in three ways:
FIRST, if you're found not guilty or the charge is dismissed, instead of having to hire an attorney and pay money to get an expungement, you will get one automatically starting next year. This is a bigger deal than it may seem. Every year, tens of thousands of North Carolinians get their charges dismissed.
That's why this has been a major issue that pretty much everyone in the state legislature has agreed we need to fix for years. The biggest roadblock was on the technological side, given how old the computer software is that our court system uses.  See  Criminal Justice Bill    See Criminal Record may lead to life time of crime/poverty.  Video

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Criminal Justice Bill passes unanimously

Sen. Jeff Jackson , photo courtesy Sen.  Jeff Jackson

This bill will reform our expungement laws in three ways:
FIRST, if you're found not guilty or the charge is dismissed, instead of having to hire an attorney and pay money to get an expungement, you will get one automatically starting next year.

This is a bigger deal than it may seem. Every year, tens of thousands of North Carolinians get their charges dismissed.

That's why this has been a major issue that pretty much everyone in the state legislature has agreed we need to fix for years. The biggest roadblock was on the technological side, given how old the computer software is that our court system uses.

This new law gives the court system until late next year to solve that problem on a going-forward basis. The law isn't retroactive due to the technological issue BUT this law tries to address that by authorizing prosecutors to submit expungement requests on their own, without having to wait for a citizen to submit a petition.

SECOND, last year North Carolina became the last state in the country to raise the age of juvenile offenses from 16 to 18. That means if you're not 18, you will now be prosecuted as a minor and not an adult (barring a few extraordinary exceptions).

And that's good. But when we fixed that we neglected to go back and expunge the records of those juveniles who received convictions as adults when they were 16 and 17. So this bill makes that narrow band of individuals eligible for expungement in order to bring our past juvenile offenders in line with what our new policy is going forward.

THIRD, after seven years with no new convictions, you can now expunge nonviolent misdemeanor convictions from your record.

So if you are convicted of an offense such as transplanting oysters taken from public grounds, unlawful sale of fish, unlawfully riding on a train, permitting domestic fowls to run at large after notice, theft of shopping cart, unlawful taking of a wild turkey, obstructing a stream or drainage ditch, operating an unlawful bingo parlor, or one of the hundreds of nonviolent misdemeanors we currently have on the books, you will now be eligible for expungement, assuming no other convictions in the past seven years. (Note: There are some exceptions here, notably including DWI convictions. They stay.)

Let me close with what we heard in committee from a woman named Lynn Burke. She told us that the nonviolent crime she committed 20 years ago continues to haunt her. She went to law school and passed the bar exam, but she can't be licensed or practice law in North Carolina because of her conviction. She left us with this statement: "If this goes through, my life will be changed."

Sen. Jeff Jackson
District 37
Mecklenburg

Criminal Record may lead to life time of crime/poverty.  Video

 

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update 06.20.20