Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

Start here: Your husband has five convictions. Irrespective fo whether he has five felony convictions, five misdemeanor convictions or a mix of both, he has five convictions. Therefore, few, if any judges, want to address correcting his NCIC (criminal history). No judge cares about removing from his record five arrests that were eventually dismissed, because your husband has five convictions. By analogy, it is like coming home and finding that the dog has chewed on all of your shoes and pissed on the couch. You are mad. Then your neighbor explains that everyone's house on the block except yours has been burglarized. Are you grateful fro the dog at that moment or are you still mad about the shoes and the couch? Your husband has prior arrests, where the system worked, and charges were dismissed. Few judges are going to halp you expunge his record of dismissed charges (because he has a hard timm finding work), because the judge knows that your husband may have committed the charges but the prosecutor could not put the case together. The point is the system worked, just like the dog in protecting your house. However, the system is clearly imperfect (like the dog chewing your shoes), because if it were perfect (perfect prosecutor, perfect wintesses) your husband might have nine convictions. I suspect that the question stems from his inability to find a good paying job. However, it is nto just the criminal history that is preventing him from getting a job, it is the attitude and behavior that leads to 12 of 15 arrests (remember some were not him) and five convictions that prevents him from finding meaningful work. I also suspect that because he cannot find meaningful work, you will nto be able to afford the attonrey that could clear up ten arrests that either were not your husband or were dismissed. I would charge about

$ 25,000, because I would have to research every offense and pull fingerprint cards and police reports. It is crazy amount of work. I wish you teh best fo luck.

Lawrence