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Can a New Jersey Juvenile Offender?s Criminal Record be Cleared?

By Lependorf & Silverstein

Having a New Jersey criminal record as a juvenile can negatively affect your child?s future. Fortunately for New Jersey minors, there are opportunities to clear youthful indiscretions from a criminal record. A skilled New Jersey juvenile criminal defense attorney can request a judge to seal a youth?s criminal record. Once the youth has served their time and shown remorse for their actions, the court may grant an order to remove any convictions from that person?s record. Once a juvenile?s criminal record is sealed, the public will not be able to view it, and it is as if the crime never happened. Companies that perform background checks cannot view sealed records, so the youth should be able to successfully seek and obtain gainful employment as well...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on February 03, 2011 (boomark / email).