Expungement
Legally Sealing Your Criminal Record
No one plans on having a criminal record. Unfortunately, circumstances
happen and mistakes are made that sometimes lead to a criminal conviction,
whether the act that brought you there was intentional or not. For some
individuals, the act of expungement provides a legal means to effectively
erasing the mark on their criminal record that was unnecessarily made,
possibly years ago. Through the process of expungement, certain criminal
offenses committed by first-time offenders can be sealed, making them
invisible to any prying eyes. Once a criminal record has been officially
sealed through expungement, it will be inaccessible. State and federal
repositories that typically make criminal records available will no longer
have access to do so. In essence, it will be as if the criminal offense
never happened.
Under Florida law, expungement is permitted for criminal offenses that
did not include a conviction. In order to be eligible for expungement
through court law, it must be proven that you were never convicted of
the crime for which you were accused and that you never pled guilty to
that crime. Individuals who have received expungement in the past will
not be permitted to do so again. There are some criminal records that
will be ineligible for expungement altogether, including those with a
final deposition of Adjudication Withheld. If you are successful in your
appeal for expungement, your criminal record will be limited to the disclosure
of the Florida Bar, the Florida Bar of Education, and the Florida Department
of Children and Families. Law enforcement officers will also maintain
access to this information, but overall the record will remain out of sight.
Wipe your record clean!
Parks & Braxton, PA can help you pursue your interest in the expungement
of your legal record. For more than 50 combined years the team of attorney
s at our firm has been providing aggressive legal representation to those
who need it most. While a good portion of our everyday work is directed
at providing our clients with sound
criminal defense that will protect them against the charges they are facing, we also have
the knowledge and wherewithal to attend to post-trial matters such as
the expungement of a criminal record. If you were not convicted of the
crime for which you were accused but you are still dissatisfied knowing
that a mark on your criminal record was made, we can help you alleviate
this problem. We know what it takes to have a record legally expunged
and we can help you take the steps to do exactly that. Day and night,
weekdays and weekends, we will be here to help you obtain legal expungement
of your case.