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6 Expungement and sealing laws restrict access to criminal records and sometimes even provide for their destruction. 7 Set-aside laws authorize a court to “vacate” a conviction in order to signal a person's rehabilitation, relief that may or may not be followed by sealing the record.
/ɪkˈspʌndʒ/ to rub off or remove information from a piece of writing: be expunged from His name has been expunged from the list of members. to cause something to be forgotten: expunge something from your memory She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory.
aside is sometimes called expungement or expunction. It means that the court record of a criminal or contempt case is sealed by the court and will not appear in official court records. You should be aware that setaside cases can be unsealed in certain limited circumstances.
aside can only be issued by the court. An individual with a DUI conviction can “apply to the judge, justice of the peace or magistrate who pronounced sentence or imposed probation” or another in office to have the conviction setaside. The court will then review a variety of factors before granting a setaside.
Conviction set-asides and expungements are similar but not the same. Conviction expungement seals an entire record of the conviction. Indeed, expungement proceedings result in the sealing of arrest records and court documents.
Generally speaking, to vacate or set aside a conviction or sentence means nullifying the court's judgment on your case. In other words, when the court grants your petition to vacate a conviction, it will look as if your case's trial and judgment never occurred, but it does not mean your case is over.