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Expungement (also called "expunction") is a court-ordered process in which the legal record of an arrest or a criminal conviction is "sealed," or erased in the eyes of the law. When a conviction is expunged, the process may also be referred to as "setting aside a criminal conviction." The availability of expungement, and the procedure for getting an arrest or conviction expunged, will vary according to the state or county in which the arrest or conviction occurred.
Legal Effect of an Expungement
An expungement ordinarily means that an arrest or conviction is "sealed," or erased from a person's criminal record for most purposes. After the expungement process is complete, an arrest or a criminal conviction ordinarily does not need to be disclosed by the person who was arrested or convicted. For example, when filling out an application for a job or apartment, an applicant whose arrest or conviction has been expunged does not need to disclose that arrest or conviction.
In most cases, no record of an expunged arrest or conviction will appear if a potential employer, educational institution, or other company conducts a public records inspection or background search of an individual's criminal record.
An expunged arrest or conviction is not necessarily completely erased, in the literal sense of the word. An expungement will ordinarily be an accessible part of a person's criminal record, viewable by certain government agencies, including law enforcement and the criminal courts. This limited accessibility is sometimes referred to as a criminal record being "under seal." In some legal proceedings, such as during sentencing for any crimes committed after an expungement, or in immigration / deportation proceedings, an expunged conviction that is "under seal" may still be considered as proof of a prior conviction.
I'm trying to figure out who is stopped from traveling to Canada, and where they are stopped, for a DUI conviction. I know someone with multiple Duiis, who married a Canadian and travels back and forth at will, several times a year.
So where do they stop them? What do they do with them?
Have read that I am banned from Canada for life.
Yet they they treat illegall drugs like kid gloves.
And BC premier Gordon Campbell got convicted of a smash -mouth DUI while on vacation in Hawaii.
Serious BAC.
Why not? In Arkansas, you can marry a pig.I'm trying to figure out who is stopped from traveling to Canada, and where they are stopped, for a DUI conviction. I know someone with multiple Duiis, who married a Canadian and travels back and forth at will, several times a year.
So where do they stop them? What do they do with them?
All good questions, Allie. I'd be interested to know as well. Since 9/11 an American has needed a passport to enter Canada...a driver's license will no longer suffice. I find it hard to believe the Border Guards are running background checks on everyone. I have not got a passport and never have, but I doubt a 50 state background check is run on any American who wants one. (There's no central registry of crimes in the US apart from NCIS, which collects data on serious felonies -- not always completely.)
Mayhaps your friend is concealing his past, or has had some sort of legal permission to enter specially granted?
BTW, I did not know we were allowed to marry Canadians....that opens up all sorts of possibilities...*laughs*.
If an American got a DUI in Canada - I could see their point being so hard-line.
But an American getting a DUI in the US - don't understand what they are so exorcised about.
wtf? I don't live in the UK, otherwise known as the land that the tooth fairy forgot.
New Jersey?
Quebec
I'm trying to figure out who is stopped from traveling to Canada, and where they are stopped, for a DUI conviction. I know someone with multiple Duiis, who married a Canadian and travels back and forth at will, several times a year.
So where do they stop them? What do they do with them?
I have no sympathy for you. My very best friend was killed by a drunk driver. If I could make it happen, I would like to see anybody convicted of driving while drunk or under the influence of drugs do a long jail sentence and be banned from driving in America for life.
Why not? In Arkansas, you can marry a pig.I'm trying to figure out who is stopped from traveling to Canada, and where they are stopped, for a DUI conviction. I know someone with multiple Duiis, who married a Canadian and travels back and forth at will, several times a year.
So where do they stop them? What do they do with them?
All good questions, Allie. I'd be interested to know as well. Since 9/11 an American has needed a passport to enter Canada...a driver's license will no longer suffice. I find it hard to believe the Border Guards are running background checks on everyone. I have not got a passport and never have, but I doubt a 50 state background check is run on any American who wants one. (There's no central registry of crimes in the US apart from NCIS, which collects data on serious felonies -- not always completely.)
Mayhaps your friend is concealing his past, or has had some sort of legal permission to enter specially granted?
BTW, I did not know we were allowed to marry Canadians....that opens up all sorts of possibilities...*laughs*.
Montana has the longest unprotected border in the world with a sparse population and vast terrain on the U.S. side and 90% of Canada’s population within 100 miles on the other....
...With Google Earth revealing 58 unmanned roads or trails leading in and out of the country, local law enforcement say they lack the manpower to properly guard the border. Currently, there are 190 officers working the northern border.
Michelle Malkin Canada’s lax border: Sharron Angle is right