Legal Opinion
United States v. Michael Meyer
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 7, 2006No. 05-1822PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Based only on the desire to maintain a position of employment that did not allow certain criminal convictions, Michael Meyer sought and was granted an expungement of his criminal record. Because we conclude that a district court is without subject matter jurisdiction to expunge a criminal record where the motion to expunge is based solely on equitable considerations, we reverse the district court with directions to grant the Government’s motion to vacate the expungement order.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1988 the Government charged Meyer by information with failure to file income…
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