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Title: Criminal Law - First Circuit Holds Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Expunge Criminal Records on Equitable Grounds.
Author : Suffolk University Law Review
Release Date : January 22, 2008
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 271 KB

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Criminal Law--First Circuit Holds Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction to Expunge Criminal Records on Equitable Grounds--United States v. Coloian, 480 F.3d 47 (1st Cir. 2007), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 377 (2007) Federal courts have ordered the expungement of a defendant's criminal record when the criminal proceeding was unlawful. (1) When the defendant bases her request for expungement on equitable grounds, however, federal courts differ on whether they have jurisdiction to consider the request. (2) In United States v. Coloian, (3) the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered whether a district court had jurisdiction to hear a motion to expunge a criminal record on equitable grounds. (4) The court held that the district court did not have jurisdiction to consider the motion. (5)