TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Suzanne Craig Robertson on Nov 19, 2021

Wade Davies writes in the current Tennessee Bar Journal about newly expanded opportunities for expungement, after the General Assembly created ways to educate defendants on how and when they can obtain one. "What we are looking at here is expungement of actual judgments of conviction," he writes. "Expungement of a conviction is a significant development because under Tennessee law an expungement returns the defendant to the status he or she occupied before the prosecution and generally creates a right to deny having been charged." Davies encourages lawyers to do pro bono work in this area. "You do not have to be a criminal defense lawyer to help someone seek an expungement. Anyone can do it."