“This is progress. Now dismiss the charges and expunge the conviction.”
When/if Trump 47 pardons him (and other J6 POWs), does a pardon erase all of that history a person’s record? Would it be 100% gone?
It will never be 100% “gone” since the story about him is out in the wild. BUT - If there is a court order expunging the records from the various federal systems such as NCIC once that notification is sent then those records are purged - period! They are gone!
In some states like Texas the expunction of state held conviction records (CCH/TCIC) are deleted when the state gets a court order to expunge and even commercial entities who handle such public records are noticed and HAVE to remove the records. The commercial entities are even subject to audits under law where they have to show they removed records. If they don’t there can be consequences.
If the “Shaman’s” or any other person’s records are used post expunction to take any adverse action like not allowing employment because of the past conviction he would have a very actionable case against a third party doing so.
Some of these laws have arisen over the past few years.