by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 7, 2012 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
The North Carolina General Assembly accomplished this week what some state lawmakers have been trying to do for a decade. Both the House and the Senate approved a bill that will allow the courts to wipe the slate clean for some nonviolent offenders. Not only will... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 13, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
We were talking about a new law in North Carolina that will allow 16- and 17-year-olds to ask the courts to have their criminal records expunged. The crimes in question must be nonviolent felonies. Violent crimes will stay on their records. The new law only applies to... by Michelle Sparrow | Jul 8, 2011 | Criminal Defense, Criminal Law Blog
Governor Perdue recently signed a bill into law that will allow North Carolina’s courts to expunge the records of 16- and 17-year-olds charged with or convicted of nonviolent felonies. An expungement erases a criminal charge or conviction from the record,...