Michigan Caregivers and Felonies

skiweeds said:

not always. sometimes over a long period of time you can get them expunged off your record. usually gotta be clean for years and years though. there was this woodshop teacher in highschool who actually killed a man in 2nd degree many years ago. he spent prison time and became a teacher but they never knew his background. one day word somehow got out and because he kept it a secret, they suspended him. he went to court to get everything cleared and since he hasnt been in trouble since, they erased it from his record. i guess in his younger years he got in a fight with someone and stabbed them but accidentally killed them. after the courts cleared everything up, they let him back to his job where he still is a teacher to this day. im sure the courts still have some kind of private record. but hes not on otis or www.bop.gov i'll see if the newspaper article is stil on the net. it was several years ago after i graduated.

http://www.wwmt.com/news/school-24347-continue-convicted.html this isnt the same article as before. the other one said they erased his reord

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defcomexperiment said:

just to clarify some things...

felonies are on your record forever; source: http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/031224fcra.pdf

you can be a caregiver with a felony, but not if it is a drug felony. (i.e. it doesnt matter if you were the first person in the US with a felony weed charge, you still can not CG in michigan); source: http://www.state.mi.us/orr/emi/admincode.asp?AdminCode=Single&Admin_Num=33300101&Dpt=CH&RngHigh=

if you live in michigan you can get one misdemeanor, or one felony expunged, but only if it is the only thing you have been convicted of... as in, if you have a misdemeanor no matter how insignificant, you will not be able to get your felony expunged. also, if you have two misdemeanors, you can not get either of them expunged. source: http://courts.michigan.gov/scao/selfhelp/intro/criminal/setaside_help.htm

hope that clears up any misconceptions...

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skiweeds said:

didnt know that, thanks. so i take it in this teacher's case, he just had the one felony, did his time, stayed out of trouble, then finally had his record expunged? i cant find the source but i remember in the newspaper it said something like some act of congress allows it. cant exactly remember.

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