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Getting a job with a misdemeanor on your record is usually not an issue, but certain offenses might make it challenging to land specific types of employment. For example: Committing theft ...

Misdemeanors — these types of low-level criminal offenses — account for about 80% of all arrests and 80% of state criminal dockets, says Alexandra Natapoff, a law professor at the University ...

There is no limit to how many of these types of misdemeanors can be set aside. Misdemeanors punishable by 93 days or more of imprisonment The conviction will be expunged seven years after the ...

The sweeping new policy called for misdemeanor charges only when there ... During former District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s second term, those types of cases were charged 89% of the time ...

All locations saw a significant rise, then decline, in misdemeanor arrests during the study period, and most spikes happened between 2008 and 2012. All saw a shift in the type of misdemeanor ...

“The nature of that event puts Shaw’s offense very far from the types of negligent infractions ... first to address firearms restrictions as a misdemeanor probation condition in the District ...

The National Bureau of Economic Research released an academic paper Monday showing “non-prosecution of a nonviolence misdemeanor offense leads to large reductions in the likelihood of a new ...