The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard SB 164, Sen. Patricia Miller’s bill on crimes involving deadly weapons. The bill prohibits expungement for a person who has two or more convictions involving the unlawful possession or use of a deadly weapon. After testimony for and against the bill from prosecutors and public defenders, the Committee amended the bill by a vote of 6-3 to limit the expungement prohibition to persons who have “two or more felony convictions involving the unlawful use of a deadly weapon, not part of the same episode of criminal conduct.” The bill passed as amended 7-2.
Read the bill at http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/164.