These updates will help people who are seeking expungement of indictable convictions (also known as criminal convictions or felony convictions), disorderly persons convictions (also known as misdemeanor convictions), and various marijuana related convictions. Contact your Miller Johnson attorney for more information.On February 15, 2021, sweeping new changes went into effect for the expungement laws in New Jersey. Miller Johnson attorneys are prepared to assist clients in determining eligibility under the Clean Slate Bills.
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The full text of the Clean Slate Bills can be found in the links below. The new laws go into effect on April 10, 2021. Similar legislative measures have been introduced or passed in states as diverse as Connecticut, Washington, North Carolina, Louisiana, and New Jersey, and similar bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Michigan is only the third state to pass automated record-clearing legislation (behind Pennsylvania and Utah)-and the first state to automatically clear qualifying felonies. Michigan’s Clean Slate legislation is part of a broader criminal reform effort going on across the country. Prescott and Sonja Starr in this Harvard Law Review article. This reform addresses the fact that in Michigan “among those legally eligible for expungement, just 6.5% obtain it within five years of eligibility,” according to Michigan Law Professors J.J. The keystone of the Clean Slate legislation is the forthcoming automated record-clearing process.
These new laws make sweeping changes that will make it easier for people who have committed certain misdemeanors and non-violent felonies to have their records expunged. The seven-bill package enjoyed broad bipartisan support in both the Michigan House and Senate. On October 12, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the “Clean Slate” Bills into law, reforming Michigan’s criminal expungement process. What Does It Mean to Have a “Clean Slate”? A Look at Michigan’s New Expungement Laws