Category: Ohio Expungement

  • With recent changes to Ohio’s laws on sealing and expungement, more people in Ohio want information on Ohio expungement laws. With recent technological advances, more people all over the world want to learn about, and utilize, artificial intelligence (AI). Many people use AI for many different things. A common use of AI is for research…

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  • Ohio law treats offenses of violence differently than other crimes. Some crimes, Assault for example, obviously constitute an offense of violence. Other offenses of violence may not be as obvious. For example, many readers may not automatically think that Menacing is an offense of violence. However, Ohio Law does consider Menacing – and many other…

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  • If you have a criminal record in Ohio you may very likely want to seek sealing and/or expungement. You may also be aware that not every offense is eligible for sealing and expungement. However, you may be wondering if your particular offense is an eligible offense. While the details of your specific situation sometimes make…

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  • Any criminal activity has consequences and carries certain penalties, regardless of which state you are in. In Ohio, certain crimes have special rules attached to them. One example of a crime with slightly different treatment from other offenses is Domestic Violence. In this article, we explore what happens after a Domestic Violence conviction in Ohio.…

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  • In recent articles, we have explored the differences between adult court and juvenile court in Ohio. We focussed mostly on adult criminal convictions and how they differ from juvenile delinquent adjudications. But how do things change when we start talking about traffic court? Here are some specifics of juvenile traffic court. Pleas in Juvenile Traffic…

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  • We recently posted an overview of sealing and expungement of criminal records in Ohio, and we mentioned that there are several exceptions to the rules, including exceptions for juvenile records. In this article, we go further into the details of sealing and expunging Ohio juvenile records. Sealing of Juvenile Records in Ohio Like adult records,…

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  • In our last article, we talked about the overall expungement laws in Ohio. In said article, we mentioned that there are some exceptions to the rules.  Sometimes you may be an eligible offender but find that the offense itself is not eligible for sealing and/or expungement.  Other times you may find that the offense itself is expungeable…

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  • Over the past five or six years, Ohio has made many changes to its expungement laws. These changes have helped the attorneys at Dearie, Fischer & Martinson attain expungements in many cases. 2018 saw some significant changes to the law. The laws have been continuously shifting, all the way up to October of 2023.  So now…

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  • New Expungement Law Works!

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    We write many articles about Expungement in Ohio, and we have already addressed the change that made true expungement possible in many cases.  Before 2023, almost no adult cases could be truly expunged.  Many could be sealed – that is, hidden from the public record.  The process of sealing a criminal record was (and is)…

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  • New Laws in 2023 and Expungement in Ohio

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    PLEASE NOTE: The Laws on Sealing and Expungement were once again Updated in October of 2023. We have written an overview of Sealing and Expungement laws in Ohio for 2024 that takes these new changes into account. For the past several years Expungement has been one of the most sought-after topics on our website.  Not…

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