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Second Circuit: Truth of Arrest Remains Despite Connecticut “Erasure” Law
Loaded on May 5, 2016
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2016, page 35
Filed under:
False Arrest.
Location:
Connecticut.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that Connecticut’s “Erasure Statute” does not render factually-true statements about a person’s arrest false.
Connecticut law allows for the destruction of arrest records if an individual is found not guilty, pardoned or the charges are nullified or dismissed. “Any person who shall have ...
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