Yes, and in many cases it has already happened. The Rhode Island Cannabis Act of 2022 required the courts to automatically expunge past convictions for possessing amounts [...]
Yes. Rhode Island does not require a lawyer, and the clerk's office accepts motions from people representing themselves. There is no court filing fee, so a denied [...]
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 [...]
