Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act

The Uniform Collateral Consequences of Conviction Act deals with the legal disabilities — disqualifications, penalties, and other sanctions — that attach to a person because of a criminal conviction, separate from the sentence itself. It calls for those consequences to be identified, collected, and published, and requires that a defendant be informed of them, and of eligibility for expungement, both in pretrial proceedings and upon release. It also separates mandatory sanctions from discretionary disqualifications, sets standards for when a conviction may be used to disqualify someone, and establishes two forms of relief — an order of limited relief and a certificate of restoration of rights — that may be issued, modified, or revoked, with reliance on either treated as evidence of due care, subject to categories of consequences excluded from relief and to the preservation of victims' rights.

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