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Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions by gdfasfklshg4 on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:13AM (#18091985)
This is terrible news for those that didn't get included. The public will miss the details and think that everyone was included. Anyone with a conviction outside this arbitrary time period will be assumed to have some extenuating circumstances that meant that their conviction was upheld.
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Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions by enedil on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:10AM (#18092197)
Is that really worse for people who were omitted by this legislature that this legislature passed? Because I can't see any change.
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Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions by gdfasfklshg4 on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:11AM (#18092693)
Yes it is. Before when a potential employer saw a cannabis conviction on a criminal records check they would have potentially ignored it because it is no longer a crime. Now they will think that all the previous convictions that should have been struck off have been struck off and any that show will be treated as having had enough merit to have been deliberately missed out.
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Re:Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions by enedil on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:18AM (#18099618)
Well, then he's dumb, because he should at least acknowledge that the conviction date is from before 1996, so who knows what happened?
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