How to Expunge an Adult Criminal Record in New Jersey
- 1). Obtain criminal records. You can contact the lawyer who handled your case or the county's Superior Court Criminal Case Management Office where you were arrested or convicted. You need information, such as your arrest date, docket number, date of disposition and sentence to prepare the expungement petition.
- 2). Complete Forms A to D. The Petition for Expungement (Form A) formally requests an expungement order. Completing the Order for Hearing, or Form B, allows the judge to schedule a hearing in 35 to 60 days after receiving your petition. Form C -- also called an Expungement Order -- must be filled out, but is only signed by the judge if the expungement is granted. Form D indicates that the forms are an expungement petition.
- 3). Send copies of the original forms to the Superior Court Criminal Case Management Office. You must include a certified check or money order written out to the Treasurer, State of New Jersey.
- 4). Mail copies of the filed petition. Once you receive the petition mailed back to you marked "filed" and with a docket number, you must send copies of the petition certified mail -- with a return receipt -- to the agencies involved in your case, such as the county prosecutor, police department's expungement unit and New Jersey attorney general.
- 5). Attend the scheduled expungement hearing. The judge may ask you some questions, if there's opposition to the expungement from the police or prosecutor.
- 6). Distribute the signed Expungement Order to government agencies. Typically, these are the same agencies you sent the copies of the filed forms.
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