The thing I don’t understand is why she was never formally charged. How do they go 20 years and never let her know in any way she’s charged with a felony. I could understand if it was a parking ticket, but not a felony.
> Blau told FOX 25 Thursday that McBride will need to get her case expunged in order to clear her record moving forward.
Why would her record even need clearing if she was not convicted of anything.
Charges and arrests are recorded even without convictions, and are public records. They aren’t legally punishments (though people may make adverse decisions based on them) so they neither require conviction nor automatically disappear without one.