Atlantic County Expungement Lawyer

Experienced Criminal Record Expungement Lawyer in Atlantic City, NJ Expediently Handles Expungement Cases in Egg Harbor Township, Galloway Township, Hamilton Township, and Throughout Atlantic County

A criminal history can hold you back in many ways. It can make it difficult to find or secure work, pursue your career goals, be approved for a mortgage, find an apartment, or avail of government aid and/or federal benefits that you may otherwise be eligible to receive. Fortunately, by using what is known as an expungement, you can potentially have your criminal record removed. To learn more about criminal records, the types of crimes and charges that may be removed by an expungement, and how the expungement process works, contact the respected Atlantic County expungement lawyer at Gelman Law Expungements today.

Obtaining the Benefits of an Expungement with a Skilled Atlantic County Expungement Lawyer

The primary benefit of an expungement is to have a clean record and remove the hurdles that an individual may face as a result of having one. For example, a major obstacle for people with criminal records is securing gainful employment. Even with relevant experience, degrees, certifications, and recommendations, people with a criminal record are often marginalized in the job market and cannot find work. An expungement can remove this criminal record so that if an employer conducts a criminal background check, your arrests, warrants, and charges will not show up.

The same benefit extends to securing housing and loans. Even if you served time or were somehow involved or implicated in a crime of any kind – even if it was years in the past – many landlords and banks will not approve you for a home or loan, respectively. An expungement can remove these obstacles, even if you were guilty of the crime in question.

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Expungements only erase specific charges on your record. Examples of expungeable proceedings on your account are apprehensions, detentions, dispositions, arrests, and trials. Expungements provide people who have a criminal record with a legal route toward clearing their name, which is particularly important for those who were, for example, innocent but arrested, detained, or questioned about a crime, were unfairly or erroneously incarcerated, or who were charged with or served time for a crime years or decades in the past and have since had a clean record.

Our criminal record expungement lawyer in Atlantic City, NJ can file an expungement petition on your behalf. If it is granted, the New Jersey police will remove all of your publicly accessible information from their systems. They will also update the FBI so that they also remove publicly accessible records on file for you. With no criminal record, you can truthfully say that the arrest, conviction, or other criminal proceedings or charges that were on your record never even occurred. Furthermore, particularly for those who have served their time, changed their lives for the better, and are now upright citizens, they can once more have a fair and equal opportunity to live their lives to the fullest.

Expungeable Offenses that Our Criminal Record Expungement Lawyer in Atlantic City, NJ Can Handle For You

According to NJ Rev Stat § 2C:52-1 (2017), expungements are defined as follows:

“The extraction and isolation of all records on file within any court, detention or correctional facility, or law enforcement or criminal justice agency concerning an individual’s detection, apprehension, arrest, detention, trial, or disposition of an offense within the criminal justice system.”

This law further states that expunged records will include “complaints, warrants, arrests, commitments, processing records, fingerprints, photographs, index cards, “rap sheets,” and judicial docket records” of the individual in question. The law goes on to say in NJ Rev Stat § 2C:52-2 (2017) that indictable offenses and a wide range of lower-level charges and offenses such as disorderly person offenses, municipal ordinance violations, juvenile delinquency offenses, and underage drug offender charges may be expunged.

However, it is important to note that many serious crimes and convictions such as murder, kidnapping, certain sex offenses, and other serious and/or violent crimes may not be expunged. It is best to speak with our Atlantic County expungement lawyer to determine the correct path forward for the expungement of your criminal record. Call the skilled criminal record expungement lawyer in Atlantic City, NJ at Gelman Law Expungements today to learn more and to enjoy dedicated and skilled legal assistance with your case.

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