Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-57 (2026)

Relief for certain persons who pled guilty within six months prior to March 31, 1983

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(1) Any person who pled guilty within six (6) months prior to March 31, 1983, and who would have otherwise been eligible for the relief allowed in Section 99-15-26, may apply to the court in which such person was sentenced for an order to expunge from all official public records all recordation relating to his arrest, indictment, trial, finding of guilty and sentence. If the court determines, after hearing, that such person has satisfactorily served his sentence or period of probation and parole, pled guilty within six (6) months prior to March 31, 1983, and would have otherwise been eligible for the relief allowed in Section 99-15-26, it may enter such order. The effect of such order shall be to restore such person, in the contemplation of the law, to the status he occupied before such arrest or indictment. No person as to whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of any law to be guilty of perjury or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of his failures to recite or acknowledge such arrest, or indictment or trial in response to any inquiry made of him for any purpose.

(2) Upon petition therefor, the court shall expunge the record of any case in which an arrest was made, the person arrested was released and the case was dismissed or the charges were dropped, there was no disposition of such case, or the person was found not guilty at trial.

Laws, 1986, ch. 362; Laws, 1996, ch. 454, § 4; Laws, 2003, ch. 557, § 3, eff. 4/24/2003.

Amended by Laws, 2019, ch. 466, HB 1352,§ 42, eff. 7/1/2019.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1997–2023 · leading case: Rebecca Hentz v. State of Mississippi, 152 So. 3d 1139 (Miss. 2014).

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Rebecca Hentz v. State of Mississippi, 152 So. 3d 1139 (Miss. 2014). · cites it 2× “” See also Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-59 (Rev. 2007) (expungment of misdemeanor charges); Miss.”

McGrew v. State, 733 So. 2d 816 (Miss. 1999). “Specifically, Miss.Code Ann. § 99-15-57 (Supp.1998), defines the target of an order of expungement as follows: Any person who pled guilty within six (6) months prior to the effective date of Section 99-15-26, Mississippi Code of 1972, and who would have otherwise been eligible…”

State of Iowa v. Jane Doe (Iowa Ct. App. 2020). “Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-57 (2) (West 2019) (“Upon petition therefor, the court shall expunge the record of any case in which an arrest was made, the person arrested was released and the case was dismissed or the charges were dropped, there was no disposition of such case, or the…”

Williams v. Commonwealth (Va. 2023). “See Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-57 (2); § 99-15-26(5) (“Upon petition therefor, the court shall expunge the record of any case in which an arrest was made, the person arrested was released and the case was dismissed or the charges were dropped, there was no disposition of such case,…”

Azalean Rogers v. State of Mississippi, 177 So. 3d 193 (Miss. Ct. App. 2014). “See Miss.Code Ann. § 99-15-57. ¶ 7. Rogers’s two cases have been consolidated on appeal.”

Charles Elliot McGrew v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 1997). “Specifically, Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-57 (Supp. 1998), defines the target of an order of expungement as follows: Any person who pled guilty within six (6) months prior to the effective date of Section 99-15-26, Mississippi Code of 1972, and who would have otherwise been eligible…”

— Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-57(2) — 1 case

Rebecca Hentz v. State of Mississippi, 152 So. 3d 1139 (Miss. 2014). “” See also Miss. Code Ann. § 99-15-59 (Rev. 2007) (expungment of misdemeanor charges); Miss.”

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