Comments on: Killer doesn’t get handgun carry permit

By: gator

gator — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:50:38 +0000

I believe it has to do with whether the crime you are convicted of as a juvenile would have been a felony had you been an adult at the time of the crime. Not everything you do as a child goes away.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:14:43 +0000

Here’s hoping they throw the book at him for even applying under a new name without disclosing his original identity. This bastard should not be allowed to own a gun, or anything else.

By: azreel

azreel — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:33:43 +0000

Actually, in Texas the juvenile record lives on forever, though it is sealed. When you apply for a Texas CHL you are required to authorize the unsealing of those records in order to be eligible to apply for a CHL.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:35:59 +0000

Can’t comment too specifically, but in our jurisdiction we execute about 64,000 adult bookings a year through the adult jail plus roughly 9500 juveniles through their dedicated facility. State statutes allow retention of juvenile arrest records until age 26 (unless they commit certain additional crimes which move them to adult status) but we dump them at the end of their 19th year. Other counties may perform differently.

We never, ever throw out any fingerprint cards (which statutes allow), and since every booking we process generates 3 sets of prints – one for us, one for the state, and one for the feds – I’m betting the state never throws their copy out, either. I’d be really, really surprised if the feds dumpstered their copies.

As for electronic prints, I suspect that, like email, those are forever as well. Every set of electronic prints we capture, regardless of booking facility, also generates a printed card for us, automatically defined by Henry class.

We keep those, too. Forever.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:49:33 +0000

In Cali it automatic at 29. You can go to a judge to to ask early.
There are exceptions for some crimes.