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Expungement is a thing, but even more importantly in court it’s usually at a judges discretion whether or not evidence is allowed and criminal history is a type of evidence.

Sometimes evidence is not allowed because it is considered prejudicial.

The purpose of a criminal trial is to determine guilt on a specific crime rather than character. That excluded evidence is sometimes allowed at sentencing.

There was controversy in the Rittenhouse case about his prior comments and actions not being allowed into evidence.

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