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Juvenile record alert - you can seal your youthful offender cases and your juvenile court delinquency cases.
On Feb. 14, 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ordered the Commissioner of Probation to stop treating juvenile court youthful offender cases differently than juvenile court delinquency cases.
This is important because people who applied to seal their youthful offender records were sent letters by the Commissioner’s office that wrongly told them that:
- they could never seal certain youthful offender records, and
- a 7 year, instead of 3 year, waiting period applied to any youthful offender felony charges.
Our best guess is that these letters were sent out during the last 4 or 5 years.
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