United States v. Harris

OPINION AND ORDER OF COURT

VICTOR H. LAWS, III, United States Magistrate Judge.

This motion to expunge a federal misdemeanor conviction requires the Court to answer a key question of federal court jurisdiction: Does federal “ancillary jurisdiction” extend to a claim for expungement of a criminal conviction — not on grounds of any illegality of the arrest or conviction, or any constitutional infirmity of the statute on which the Defendant was convicted— but solely on equitable grounds? The federal Circuits are split on this issue, and even within this District' the decisions, taken as a whole,…