legal question

[psyko1]

anyone know the cost or the time requirements to getting something expunged from your record? do i need to hire an attorney?

[shortz]

Differeng from state to state. You are best to actually call the majistrate's office and find out. Most of the time, it consists of a letter to the judge that convicted you. The letter should contain things like "I have not committed any midemeaners or crimes and feel that I have been fully remediated and matured since the incident..." Something like that.

I am going to be doing something similar to get a couple of MDs off my record too. I have agg. assault, harassment and disorderly conduct from when I was 14 years old. It was nothing more than picking on a kid who tried to run away, tripping over his own feet and hitting the pavement. They said I was responsible for his injuries and charged me out the ass.

[Primal Instinct]

Hell, you need a lawyer just to pressure credit reporting agencies to remove FALSE or inaccurate instances of credit defaults and to protect your rights if you have been a victim of identity theft. For an expungement of charges/convictions on a legal record, I would go the professional route.

I once had to threaten suing an auto insurance company that would not remove me from an insurance driving pool many years ago due to an accident that I was ultimately not even held responsible for. The legal limit where I live was to keep violations or accidents (for insurance records) on record for 7 years. This means increased insurance premiums out the ass for very minimal coverage. I asked them to revise the record after 8 years but they refused to do so. I took my own course of action for the next 2 years without success. It was already 10 years with a clean driving record and they were still trying to justify higher premiums when I hired a lawyer and had a letter from the State Attorney General sent to them to break their asses and they finally caved in. Fuckers!

[shortz]

^^^Damn, I would have asked for money back that was owed to you over those last couple years that they shouldn't have been charging you too.

[Primal Instinct]

It's virtually impossible to recoup anything like that. The court costs would outweigh any possible returns. Also, a decision in your favor is one thing but actually receiving payment is a whole different thing :( Getting them to fix it was a small victory in itself. I'm happy to get that, lol.