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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 24, 2007

Cleaning the Slate

Focus Column - By Jeff Adachi and DeMarris R. Evans - California law offers many opportunities for taking remedial action toward criminal defendants’ past records, including expungement and sealing or destruction of the files. MCLE credit available.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Jeff Adachi and DeMarris R. Evans

      "To err is human; to forgive, divine."
      Those words, uttered many times since Alexander Pope first penned them 200 years ago, have vitality and life in today's world, where having a criminal conviction can severely hinder a person from rehabilitation and becoming a working member of society.
      The San...

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