Permits, under certain circumstances, person adjudged juvenile delinquent to expunge record for act which would have constituted robbery if committed by adult.
This bill (A3744) allows juveniles adjudged delinquent for acts that would have been robbery if committed by an adult to expunge their records under specific conditions. It directly affects young people in New Jersey whose juvenile offenses would have been classified as robbery (under N.J.S.2C:15-1) but did not involve bodily injury, force against others, or use of a deadly weapon. The key provision creates an exception to current law, which generally prohibits expunging robbery-related juvenile records, by permitting expungement only for non-violent robbery-like acts. This change aligns juvenile record expungement standards more closely with adult expungement rules for similar offenses.
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Feb 2024
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Introduced Feb 22, 2024
Last action Feb 22, 2024
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Introduced in the Assembly, Referred to Assembly Judiciary Committee
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Carol Murphy
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