Legal fees depend on the size of the record, whether any count needs sealing as well as expungement, and whether the Attorney General or the police department [...]
Sealing is for cases that never produced a conviction; expungement is for cases that did. If your charge was dismissed, the grand jury returned a no true [...]
No. An expungement order reaches the court, the police, the Attorney General, and the Bureau of Criminal Identification. It does not reach websites. Mugshot sites, old news [...]
Yes, on two tracks, as long as the felony is not a crime of violence or one of the offenses the 2026 law made permanently ineligible. A [...]
Once the waiting period has run, most Rhode Island expungement motions take 2 to 4 months from filing to a signed order. The clerk sets a hearing [...]
Force is excessive when it is greater than what was reasonably necessary to stop the threat. Rhode Island law requires the force used to be proportionate to [...]