New Law Restricts Access to Criminal Records
Bingham McHale attorney Alex Gude and I recently authored an article for The Indiana Lawyer on a new law resulting from the latest Indiana General Assembly session that could help non-violent offenders shield some of their conviction records from the public and potential employers. A preview is below. Visit The Indiana Lawyer website for the full article.
There is a misconception among even the most educated of criminal clients that arrests, charges and convictions disappear off of one’s Indiana criminal record after a passage of time. This is not the case. Unlike other states’ expungement laws that allow the expungement of records after a period of good behavior, Indiana’s expungement laws can be unforgiving and generally preserve arrest and conviction records so that an arrestee’s great grandchildren can have a memento of their ancestor’s alleged and/or proven mischief. Read the full article>>
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James Bell
James focuses his practice in the areas of criminal defense, attorneys discipline defense and health care law. James was one of the 2009 and 2010 Vice Presidents of the Indianapolis Bar Association and was the 2009 chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Criminal [...]
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