Now is the time to put your criminal record in the past and finding a job that will secure a better future for you and your family. Nearly 80,000 new jobs were created at the end of 2012. That’s 80,000 new employment possibilities. The first thing you should do is explore available options to expunge or seal your texas criminal record. The Law Firm of Higbee & Associates, which operates RecordGone.com offers a free consultation designed to...

It is difficult to determine if you are eligible for a Texas expungement. You can directly contact an attorney and spend several hours to discuss your situation. Thankfully there is an online eligibility test from recordgone.com that can determine whether or not you are eligible for an expungement. We’ve found that many of our readers recommended their services in addition to the eligibility test. So if you’re from the Texas area,...

If you have a less-than-perfect history and are now seeking a job, you may have come across the terms expungement, criminal record clearing, and so forth. Of course there are many companies that provide record clearing service – each with their own system and methods. But to add confusion to the matter, only a few provide an accelerated service called an Expedited Criminal Database Update or ECDU. What is an Expedited Criminal Database...

The cases appear to support the proposition that if multiple offenses arise from the same episode, a conviction for one of them makes ALL of them ineligible for expunction. However, I should say that in Aytonk (which most/all of these cases seem to refer back to), defendant was charged with only ONE count of theft and pleaded guilty to a closer theft offenses?..THUS, this case does not concern two separate offenses?. Also, in Ex parte E.E.H.,...

A recent study by the prestigous Pew Research firm shows that one in every 31 adults in the United States is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago. The report was released in March of 2009. While the study did not touch on the long-term consequences of those with a criminal record or rates of recidivism, a consequence of going through the penal system...