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Koehler Law. In all of these instances, legislative or judicial bodies found compelling policy reasons for ignoring in law what had occurred in fact, and for that reason the "rewriting of history" label was quite properly not affixed to any of them; we decline as Congress did to apply it in this instance where equally compelling interests are present.
The government does, however, have a legitimate need for maintaining criminal records in order to efficiently conduct future criminal investigations. Law enforcement authorities have an interest in knowing, for example, that a definite suspect in a crime under investigation had previously been arrested or convicted, especially if for a similar offense.
Likewise, police investigators will be greatly assisted if they are able to check whether persons residing or having been observed at the situs of an offense involving a particular modus operandi had previously been arrested or convicted of an offense involving the same modus operandi. The expungement remedy as defined herein will not deprive the government of the criminal records of Youth Act offenders for these purposes.
Arrest records, and other matters not covered by section , will, of course, be retained in any event. In order to accommodate these governmental interests and at the same time minimize any risk to the youthful ex-offenders' interests which Congress intended to protect, the following procedures will apply. Once a district court issues its order setting aside a conviction under section and transmits that order to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 62 it will not be sufficient for the Identification Division of that Bureau, as in the past, merely to enter the words "set aside" on its records.
The set-aside must be actual: the conviction records must be physically removed from the central criminal files 63 and placed in a separate storage facility 64 not to be opened other than in the course of a bona fide criminal investigation by law enforcement authorities 65 and where necessary for such an investigation.
These records may not be used by appellees for any other purpose, nor may they be disseminated to anyone, public or private, for any other purpose. Once notified of the entry of a set-aside order, appellees and their agents will be required to respond in the negative to any and all inquiries concerning the set-aside conviction.
Similarly, the ex-offender whose conviction is or has been set aside under section , may legally reply in the negative to any and all questions concerning his former conviction.
By appropriately balancing the needs of law enforcement agencies and the interests of rehabilitated youthful offenders under the Act, these procedures ensure that agencies will have access to their files where necessary to conduct criminal investigations, but that appellant and others like him will not have the set-aside convictions on their records and they will thus be spared the economic, social, and legal consequences which impair their reintegration into society.
District of Columbia, supra, U. Cullinane, supra, U. Kelley, supra, U. Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. Although the Act has been in effect for almost thirty years, and has been the subject of considerable academic comment and judicial decision, neither the U. Supreme Court nor any of the Circuits has fully examined the effect to be accorded a set-aside conviction.
But see note 43 Infra. The record does not reveal the precise nature of the sentence, but it was presumably imposed under 18 U. Subsequent to his release from prison, appellant had received an A. That section provides: "Where a youth offender has been placed on probation by the court, the court may thereafter, in its discretion, unconditionally discharge such youth offender from probation prior to the expiration of the maximum period of probation theretofore fixed by the court, which discharge shall automatically set aside the conviction, and the court shall issue to the youth offender a certificate to that effect.
Appellant claims that the District Court erred by dismissing the complaint on the statutory ground without considering the facts and circumstances of his case in light of its inherent equitable powers. See note 8, Infra and accompanying text. The power to order expungement is a part of the general power of the federal courts to fashion appropriate remedies to protect important legal rights. Chastain v. Kelley, U. Wilson, F. Breier, F. Cullinane, F. Morton, U.
Murphy, supra note 8 mass arrest of "May Day" protesters of U. Dudley, F. Goodman, F. Tarlton v. Benlizar, Crim. Warden, F. Bohr, F. United States, supra note 8 arrest for failure to report for induction based on statute subsequently declared unconstitutional ; United States v.
Hudson, Crim. Hudson, et al. July 19, arrest for murder later determined that cause of death was suicide. United States v. Bohr, supra note 11, F. Seasholtz, F. Rosen, F. United States, supra note 11, 53 F. Kalish, supra note 11, F. Commander, Md. Dill, Colo. Malone, Pa. See also Coleman v. United States Department of Justice, F. See United States v. McLeod, supra note 10, F. Kelley, supra note 8, U. The decisions are not all consistent, nor does each of them provide a fully-articulated rationale.
Kowall, supra note 11, 53 F. If there was no crime, or if the government concedes that the defendant was not in any way implicated in its commission, it would appear to have no need for the records at all. If, however, the charges are dismissed for some other reason E. Linn, F. Slaughter, F. See Stevenson v. Linn, supra note 16; Rogers v. Slaughter, supra note 16, F. United States Department of Justice, supra note 12, F.
Seasholtz, supra note 12, F. Scott, F. United States, supra note 12, F. Dooley, F. Rosen, supra note 12, F. Many states likewise require the collection and transmission of criminal justice data to state and federal law enforcement agencies, see, E.
Herschel v. Dyra, F. See also cases cited note 17 Supra. In Menard v. Saxbe, this court determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has an affirmative duty not to maintain in its criminal investigation files the records of persons arrested unlawfully.
Specifically, we held that when the FBI is "apprised that a person has been exonerated after initial arrest, released without charge and with a change of record to 'detention only,' the FBI has the responsibility to expunge the incident from its criminal identification files.
The set-aside certificate could hardly be regarded as conceptually inconsistent with an expungement; if anything, it reinforces the conclusion that a significant event having wide-ranging consequences has occurred. The certificate has also been regarded as a symbolic token of forgiveness, trust, and confidence, thus aiding in the rehabilitation process. Glasgow, F. The concept itself is not a new one, see, E. Tyndall, Ind.
Moreover, model expungement acts and other expungement statutes did not become prevalent until well after the hearings on the proposed legislation. Pursuant to the recommendations of the National Commission on Uniform State Laws in its model statute, thirty-six states enacted expungement laws with respect to drug offenders. Glasgow, supra note 20, F. See generally, Doe v. Commander, supra note 12, A. In short, not much can be made of the choice of words alone. This conclusion is buttressed by the legislative history of the Act.
See pp. Almost all states have enacted some form of statute disenfranchisement of persons convicted of a felony, E. Code Supp. In most states there are constitutional and statutory provisions disqualifying persons convicted of certain crimes from holding any office of trust or profit, E. While the disqualification from holding federal office is not as broad, there are statutes barring an offender from federal public office for a specific period, E.
A few states retain "civil death" statutes which "deem civilly dead" persons sentenced to life imprisonment, or suspend all civil rights and powers of persons sentenced to lesser terms. See, E. Laws Ann. Some of these jurisdictions hold that civil death deprives the convict of all contractual rights, E.
See Byers v. Sun Savings Bank, 41 Okl. A few states render convicted perjurers incompetent as witnesses, E.
Code tit. As a general rule, however, the competency of a witness is a question for the court, the jury having the power to determine how much weight to accord his testimony. About half the states provide that a witness who has been convicted of any crime may have his testimony impeached thereby, E.
About three-fourths of the states expressly exclude certain persons from jury qualifications. Additionally, several statutes provide that a criminal conviction is grounds for challenge for cause. Code Crim. Additionally, in the case of aliens, such disabilities may include exclusion, 8 U.
See also Mestre Morera v. For a discussion of the various disabilities and effects of an arrest record alone, see United States v. Benlizar, supra note 11, slip op. United States, supra note 11, slip op.
Parker chairman , Learned Hand, and Orie L. Laws, Carrol C. Hincks, John C. Collet, and Paul J. Judge Orie L. Phillips, one of the drafters of the proposed legislation, submitted a list of "technical amendments" which included striking from proposed section the words "and the certificate shall have the same legal effect as a pardon.
These amendments were adopted and passed without debate. See Expungement of Criminal Records, supra note 20, at Thus, it has been suggested that, because the amendment has been described as technical in nature, see note 38 Supra, the set-aside provision still has no more effect than a pardon which does not eliminate the conviction but only ends further punishment.
See Knote v. United States, 95 U. Yet there is also evidence that the "pardon" language was eliminated because a pardon is traditionally and constitutionally an exclusively executive function.
Probation, Sept. The government complains that the legislative history upon which appellant relies does not include statements of congressional sponsors of the legislation or other legislators, and that it is therefore entitled to little weight. Hochfelder, U. United Mine Workers, U. Wrightwood Dairy Co. This argument, however, overlooks the fact that there Are no statements by legislators in the legislative history of section b which shed any light on the interpretation to be accorded the set-aside provision, and that the Act was primarily the product of the Judicial Conference and its committee.
Thus the members of that committee are uniquely qualified to provide guidance on the meaning of the Act. It was presumably for this same reason that the Supreme Court relied almost exclusively upon their testimony in determining the legislative intent with respect to the Act's sentencing provisions.
See Dorszynski v. Indeed, H. Judge Phillips' further statement, that the Act "does not entirely remove the difficulty but he can say to the prospective employer, 'I have gone through this thing.
They think I am rehabilitated and have given me this clearance and I think I am rehabilitated and can make good,' " has, in the eyes of some courts including the court below, lent ambiguity to section Home Attorney D.
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