State court administrators say that a bill to expunge the records of some convicted non-violent offenders is an important part of their legislative agenda.
The measure, pushed by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman in his State of the Judiciary address last month, would erase the records of misdemeanor convictions if an offender is not rearrested within seven years and of non-violent felony convictions where offenders have not been not rearrested in 10 years. The bill would not apply to convictions for violent offenses, sex-related offenses, DWI-related offenses and public corruption.
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