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Committee debates petitionless sealing and expungement timelines; members request clarifications on scope and records access
Summary
The Judiciary Committee discussed S.12 on Feb. 21, focusing on petitionless sealing for convictions that would no longer be crimes and on timelines for sealing and expungement.
The Judiciary Committee discussed S.12 on Feb. 21, focusing on petitionless sealing (automatic sealing) for convictions that would no longer be crimes and on timelines for sealing and expungement.
A committee member said Judge Sone had attempted to extrapolate impacts from a broader petitionless‑sealing report and that the committee needed a narrower analysis focused on offenses that are no longer crimes.
Committee members pressed for clarification on several points: whether sealing would apply prospectively (to convictions after the effective date) or retroactively, how deferred sentences and plea deals in progress would be treated, and how defense attorneys would access sealed…
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