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Wrongful Arrests and Sealed Records

Wrongful Arrests and Sealed Records When an individual is acquitted of criminal charges, the arrest and trial record for that charge is sealed.  The rationale for this rule is that people who are innocent of criminal charges shouldn’t have a criminal record.  After all, arrests, by themselves, mean nothing other than that a person was […]


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