Prosecutors urged a federal appeals court to overturn a judge’s expungement grant to an unemployed woman, while her attorneys said it would be a mistake for the court to depart from its existing case law on when judges were allowed to blot out convictions.
During oral arguments Thursday, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit put both sides to the test with questions on when a judge’s jurisdiction ceased, the difference between arrest and conviction records, and whether Jane Doe had adequate remedies through state laws that forbade job discrimination based on one’s criminal history.
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