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Minnesota: Favorable Resolution of Charges Establishes Rebuttable Presumption of Expungement
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2013, page 48
The Minnesota Supreme Court held that the favorable resolution of criminal proceedings establishes a rebuttable presumption in favor of expungement under state law.In May 2009, a defendant identified only as RHB was charged with first- and third-degree assault for injuring a young child. He was found not guilty by …
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