In Re Criminal Records of HMH

960 A.2d 821 (2008)

404 N.J. Super. 174

In the Matter of the Expungement of the CRIMINAL RECORDS OF H.M.H., Petitioner.

DOCKET NO. 17422.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

Decided January 17, 2008.

Vincent J. Gaughan, Mount Holly, for petitioner.

William P. Fisher, Assistant Prosecutor, for State of New Jersey (Joseph L. Bocchini, Jr., Mercer County Prosecutor, attorney).

PEREKSTA, J.S.C.

The question decided in this action is whether a person who has pled guilty to a disorderly persons offense of simple assault is barred from having that offense expunged because the offense constituted an…