John Doe v. William H. Webster, Director, Fbi

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the FYCA’s set-aside provision was “intended to give youthful ex-offenders a fresh start, free from the stain of a criminal conviction”
• noting expungement would be appropriate if “unusually substantial harm to the defendant not in any way attributable to him outweighs the government’s need for a record of the arrest”
• “[A]bsent specific statutory authority it would be wholly inappropriate to order such an expungement in a case such as this where there has been ... a valid conviction.”
• “[Ajbsent specific statutory authority it would be wholly inappropriate to order such an expungement in a case such as this where there has been ... a valid conviction.”
• since expungement is an equitable remedy, the grant of relief “depends on the facts and circumstances of the case” and requires “a logical relationship between the injury and the requested remedy”
• “[Ajbsent specific statutory authority it would be wholly inappropriate to order such an expungement in a case such as this where there has been not only a valid arrest but a valid conviction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).