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Texas Supreme Court Interprets State’s Expungement Statute
Loaded on Oct. 28, 2018
by David Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
November, 2018, page 14
Filed under:
Criminal Procedure.
Location:
Texas.
by David Reutter
The Supreme Court of Texas held that the state’s expungement statute is “neither entirely arrest-based nor offense-based.” Based upon the facts of this case, it held that the petitioner was entitled to expungement of records and files with respect to the charge for which she was acquitted. ...
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