Judging by the traffic on ISBA's criminal-law listserver, few topics are more important to day-to-day criminal defense practice than expungements. And on that topic, Coles County lawyer
Jeremy J. Richey has some advice for his peers -- don't put them off. In a recent post to his excellent
East Central Illinois Criminal Law & DUI Weblog, he says this: "Since expungement is a slow process, a person should seek expungement the first day he is eligible for it and
not when he needs it later down the road."
Read the whole thing.
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