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A committee of state lawmakers recently moved forward a piece of legislation aimed at expanding the state’s expungement laws.
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Read More »Expungement bill advances
A committee recently gave its blessing to proposed legislation that would expand Wisconsin’s expungement law.
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Read More »Assembly committee to vote on expungement proposal
A bill that would make changes to Wisconsin’s expungement law will go before a panel of Wisconsin lawmakers this week for a vote.
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Read More »Wisconsin lawmakers resurrect expungement bill
A group of lawmakers is trying again to pass legislation that would allow convicts to ask judges to expunge their criminal records.
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Read More »Expungement bills clear Assembly panels
State Assembly lawmakers have given preliminary approval to two bills that would overhaul the state’s process that allows young offenders to wipe their criminal histories clean.
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Read More »Support pours out for second expungement proposal
More than a dozen people, including lawyers, a nun, an electrician and a high school counselor lined up Thursday in support of a bill that would expand the state’s rules that allow certain people to seek the elimination of their criminal history.
Tagged with: Expungement Ray Dall’Osto
Read More »Last-minute amendment delays vote on expungement bill
Citing controversy over recent amendments, a state panel has delayed its vote on whether to recommend a bill that would change the state’s procedures for expungement.
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Read More »Prosecutors, judge weigh in on proposed change to expungement rules
In the decades that Rock County District Attorney David O’Leary has been a prosecutor, he's learned it's not just juveniles who can suffer for years for acts that were ill-thought-out and possibly out of character.
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Read More »Committee to tackle proposals for expungement, pro bono work for DAs
A state Assembly committee will hold a public hearing Thursday on a slew of bills, including one that would change the state’s procedures for expunging a person’s record.
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Read More »High court dismisses expunction petition
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the State Bar of Wisconsin's seven-year-old request for a rule change that would have allowed people charged with a crime but never convicted to remove those charges from online court records.
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Read More »Bill would let judges expunge records
A bill that would allow a judge to decide on expunging an eligible criminal defendant’s record after sentencing was introduced Thursday in the Assembly.
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Read More »Criminal Procedure – expungement — retroactivity
2011AP1556-CR State v. Meinhardt
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Read More »2011AP81 State v. Jacobs
Criminal Procedure Expungement
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Read More »2010AP3146-CR State v. Thompson
Sentencing Expungement
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Read More »2010AP1161 In re the expungement request in State v. Eric A.
Criminal Procedure Expungement Eric A. appeals an order denying both his petition for expungement and motion to be released from the sex offender registration requirements. We conclude the circuit court properly exercised its discretion and affirm. This opinion will not ...
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