How do I go about obtaining an expungement of a federal criminal conviction?

Dear belly-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

Unfortunately, at the moment, assuming that you are in the United
States, there is no federal statute that authorizes the expungement of
convictions for federal crimes (other than convictions related to low
level drug possession by people under the age of 21 years).  Generally
speaking, you will not be able to have such a conviction removed from
your record, though federal courts do have the authority to order the
record removed in extraordinary circumstances where a lack of probable
cause is evident or if the person arrested was taken into custody for
a statute that is deemed unconstitutional.

You can, however, seek a federal pardon (Presidential pardon) but this
will not remove the conviction from your record; it merely seals the
record from being accessed.

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Tutuzdad-ga



INFORMATION SOURCES

NEW ORLEANS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORPORATION
http://www.nolac.org/expungements.htm


FINDLAW
(state by state laws pertaining to cleaning up criminal records)
http://public.findlaw.com/states_new.html


“Pardon Me! -- The Pardon Resource Center”
http://www.silicon-valley.com/pardonme/index.shtml




RECOMMENDED READING

"EXPUNGEMENTS" 2nd Edition 
Freedom from the Disability of a Legal Record 
International Standards Book Number (ISBN) 0-9662018-6-8 
Library of Congress Catalog Number (LCCN) 2001090621     
http://www.uslawbooks.com/books/expungement.htm




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The information I have obtained on my own seems to contradict the
answer i received from tutuzdad-ga, so my search will continue, but
thanks anyway!

For a federal court analysis demonstrating the difficulty of obtaining
expungement after acquittal or the reversal of a conviction, please
review the following Case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals:
http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/97/97-30160-cr0.htm

And the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, as reproduced on the Kansas
Judicial Branch website:
http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/1997/12/97-4039.htm

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