Texas laws allows public access to criminal records, including arrests, charges, convictions, and penalties, for many years after a crime was committed.
These past crimes have the ability to damage many aspects in life, professional and personal. An expunction and non-disclosure lawyer can have these records sealed and/or erased entirely.
Many people wonder if an expungement lawyer can get any and all crimes removed from their criminal records.
The following information provides all the information that Dallas and surrounding residents need to know about expungement and non-disclosure orders. This includes which crimes can and cannot be sealed, benefits of having a clean a record, and how to get started.
Expungements and non-disclosure orders can potentially have past charges removed or sealed from public records. An expungement is equivalent to the crime having never been committed. All information involved in the criminal conviction are erased, including arrest records, incarceration, and other related data.
Non-disclosures seal all records of a crime from the public, eliminating the previous obligation of disclosing potentially damaging information.
Click here to read more about expunction and non-disclosures, including the differences between these procedures.
Clean Criminal Records Provide a Fresh Start
Offenses are Eligible, Entitled, or Exempt
There is a difference in whether an offender is eligible or entitled to an expunction or disclosure.Circumstances of Entitlement Include:
- Acquittals
- Innocence Findings After Convictions
- Pardons
- Unlawful Carrying of a Weapon (Some Cases)
Exemptions for Expunction
There are crimes that Texas law does not allow to be disclosed from the public.Exemptions Include:
- Crimes Involving Children
- Sex Crimes
- Aggravated Assault
- DWI/DUI
- Crimes that Violated Probation
- Crimes During a Criminal Episode
- Murder