Criminally Yours: There’s No Such Thing As Wiping The Slate Clean (Above the Law)
Above the Law, August 15, 2016
Criminally Yours: There’s No Such Thing As Wiping The Slate Clean
He [Judge Gleeson] then concluded this was one such case, stating that having conducted an extensive investigation and tried the underlying case himself, ‘I conclude that the public’s interest in Doe being an employed, contributing member of society so far outweighs its interest in her conviction being a matter of public record that the motion is granted and her conviction is expunged.’ (Doe v. U.S., 110 F.Supp.3d 448). Prosecutors immediately appealed, but Doe’s position was joined by a Who’s Who of the indigent public defense world — the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, the Community Service Society of New York, the National Lawyers Association of New York, the Bronx Defenders, the Fortune Society, the Legal Aid Society, the Legal Action Center, the National Employment Law Project, Open Hands Legal Service, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, the Urban Justice Center, Frontiers of Freedom Institute, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, etc.
