Rencher v. Elkins

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• observing that remote convictions have little value in assessing a person’s present character or likely future conduct
• explaining that it would be harsh and absurd to refuse to hire people who have “been convicted of a crime of moral turpitude without regard to the remoteness of those convictions or the individual’s subsequent performance”
• conviction for selling alcohol and opium 15 years earlier not basis for denying applicant license to sell cigarettes
• corporation’s wholesale cigarette dealer’s license could not lawfully be revoked because corporation’s majority stockholder had been convicted of unrelated criminal offense almost twenty years earlier
• where prior convictions do not reflect upon applicant’s present ability to properly discharge responsibilities required of licensed wholesale cigarette vendor, revocation of license based on convictions violates citizen’s right to engage in lawful employment
• where prior convictions do not reflect upon applicant's present ability to properly discharge responsibilities required of licensed wholesale cigarette vendor, revocation of license based on convictions violates citizen's right to engage in lawful employment

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