State v. N.W.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

EICHEN, J.A.D.

This is an appeal from an order of the Law Division denying N.W.’s (petitioner) petition to expunge the record of a criminal conviction entered on July 9, 1976 for “camal abuse” under repealed statute N.J.S.A 2A:138--1. The order was entered pur*328suant to N.J.S.A. 2C:52-1 to -32 (the expungement statute). Petitioner applied for expungement of the conviction under N.J.S.A. 2C:52-2b, arguing that because the Legislature did not include the crime of “carnal abuse” in the list of ineligible crimes in that section of the statute, its intent was…