expunction
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Special Assistant Attorney General Lisa Blount said in a response that several laws provide for expunction of criminal records under limited circumstances.
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2014
Justice James Kitchens, in a dissent, argued that there are state and federal court decisions that support a determination that a pardon renders a conviction moot and mandates expunction.
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2014
She said no state law provides for expunction upon the grant of an executive pardon.
From Washington Times • Dec. 14, 2014
Prosecutors say Mississippi laws provide for expunction of records under limited circumstances, but none applies to a governor’s pardon.
From Washington Times • Jul. 19, 2014
By this process the essence of two or more old comedies is extracted; their characters and plots amalgamated; and the whole “rectified” by the careful expunction of equivocal passages.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
