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No Right to Destruction of Juvenile Records in Virginia
Loaded on July 15, 2011
by David Reutter
By David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Disclosure of Records,
Expert Witnesses.
Location:
Virginia.
The Virginia Supreme Court has held that there is no vested right under state law to have juvenile records destroyed. The Court, however, found that an expert’s testimony was inadmissible because that testimony was based upon an improper finding that the conduct charged in the juvenile …
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