Tampa Criminal Defense Lawyer Jeff Quisenberry with the Fernandez Law Group discusses the difference between sealing or expunging a criminal record and how the Fernandez Law Group can help anyone with the expungement process - which can make certain criminal charges disappear from the record. TRANSCRIPT:
I’m Jeff Quisenbery. I’m an attorney with the Fernandez Law Group here in Tampa.
Many of you have heard the term expunging a charge, the expungement of a charge, and also you’ve heard the term seal. The two are different and they apply to different situations.
An expunge is a charge that has not been proved against a person. There’s been no plea, no trial, no finding of guilt when a person has been arrested and you want that stricken from the record.
That’s different than sealing a charge and that applies where you’ve pled guilty or were found guilty by a court.
Expunging a charge is different from sealing and we can tell you how to do that. Once a charge is expunged, in essence, it vanishes from the record - it disappears.
The only way that somebody can find out about that is if you have a second charge and a government body tries to search for it. You can actually tell an employer that you’ve never had a charge once a charge has been successfully expunged - it’s gone.
Please call us, we can help.

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