About a year ago I met a young lady who was dating my friend. I am inquiring about this on her behalf.
When she was 17 she fell in with the wrong kind of guy, and like 17 year old girls are known to do when "in love" she went along with everything he said. She fell into drugs and that is how he had her hooked. One day they were driving in South Dakota and he decided that he was going to rob a liquor store. He was armed and she drove. They got caught and she was sentenced as an accesory as an adult to three years. She was a model inmate and served one year and is now on probation. She is now 21, maintains a good GPA at the local Community College, stays out of trouble and will proudly tell anyone she meets that she has been clean for four years.
Now she is a few semesters away from graduating with a degree in Vet Science, but looking at a tough road as far as finding employment with a felony conviction. Further, my friend wants to propose to her and get married when they finish school. He does own guns and as soon as they started dating he asked me to take possesion of them so that she could not get into trouble. He will gladly continue this arrangement in order to wed this girl.
She however confided in me that she will never say yes to marriage while a felon. She knows that it can be expunged, but does not know the particulars. Neither do I, thus my questions:
1)How to go about the expungement?
1a)I know it requires going before a judge, does it have to be in the jurisdiction that the offense was commited in or will any criminal judge do?
2)Does she have to complete her probation(this one I kind of figured was a "yes")?
3)Will her fiance/husband be able to keep his guns at their home once it goes through(my safe is getting full)?
4)What are her chances?(keep in mind that from the day she was released she has been a model citizen, keeps good grades, abides by all conditions of her parole and is just looking to erase the one stupid mistake she made as a teen)?
5)Does all record of the offense truly disapear? I have been made to understand that vets use drugs that are controled substances and she may have to pass a background check.
I don't expect some of you to understand, that is fine, but I ask that you keep your responses on the helpful side as she will be reading all of them. When I first found out I was wary, but knowing this young lady has made me rethink my "Theory X" veiw on people. I genuinely feel that the system worked in this case and she deserves a second chance. That is the whole point behind expungement after all.
Thanks in advance.
When she was 17 she fell in with the wrong kind of guy, and like 17 year old girls are known to do when "in love" she went along with everything he said. She fell into drugs and that is how he had her hooked. One day they were driving in South Dakota and he decided that he was going to rob a liquor store. He was armed and she drove. They got caught and she was sentenced as an accesory as an adult to three years. She was a model inmate and served one year and is now on probation. She is now 21, maintains a good GPA at the local Community College, stays out of trouble and will proudly tell anyone she meets that she has been clean for four years.
Now she is a few semesters away from graduating with a degree in Vet Science, but looking at a tough road as far as finding employment with a felony conviction. Further, my friend wants to propose to her and get married when they finish school. He does own guns and as soon as they started dating he asked me to take possesion of them so that she could not get into trouble. He will gladly continue this arrangement in order to wed this girl.
She however confided in me that she will never say yes to marriage while a felon. She knows that it can be expunged, but does not know the particulars. Neither do I, thus my questions:
1)How to go about the expungement?
1a)I know it requires going before a judge, does it have to be in the jurisdiction that the offense was commited in or will any criminal judge do?
2)Does she have to complete her probation(this one I kind of figured was a "yes")?
3)Will her fiance/husband be able to keep his guns at their home once it goes through(my safe is getting full)?
4)What are her chances?(keep in mind that from the day she was released she has been a model citizen, keeps good grades, abides by all conditions of her parole and is just looking to erase the one stupid mistake she made as a teen)?
5)Does all record of the offense truly disapear? I have been made to understand that vets use drugs that are controled substances and she may have to pass a background check.
I don't expect some of you to understand, that is fine, but I ask that you keep your responses on the helpful side as she will be reading all of them. When I first found out I was wary, but knowing this young lady has made me rethink my "Theory X" veiw on people. I genuinely feel that the system worked in this case and she deserves a second chance. That is the whole point behind expungement after all.
Thanks in advance.