Wednesday, January 09, 2008
EXPUNGEMENT "TEXAS STYLE"
In New Investigation in Texas E-Mail Case The New York Times reports:
One of the office [e-mail] messages showed [District Attorney] Rosenthal trying to help his son, a lawyer, expunge old criminal offenses for a client. Others showed him gathering negative information against the Democrat planning to run against him, Clarence Bradford, a former Houston police chief, and against a Democratic state senator from Houston, John Whitmire, with whom he has clashed
The evidence of domestic spying on a political opponent by a District Attorney is disturbing. And we also do not support a system which allows for expungement of records only for those with connections. Instead, we support an expungment system that is transparent, streamlined, equitable, and uniform, and which provides for the expugement of both criminal and civil (domestic) arrest records.
Labels: Expungment
