Petition for Clean Slate erasure

Automatic erasure only applies to eligible convictions that were imposed on or after January 1, 2000.

To erase eligible convictions for offenses dated prior to January 1, 2000 under the Clean Slate program, you have to petition the court to erase your conviction.

1. Complete the petition

Complete the Petition for Clean Slate Erasure form JD-CR-202. You will have to swear under oath on the form that:

• Convictions happened before January 1, 2000.
• Your crimes are eligible for Clean Slate erasure because they are:
  • Misdemeanors
  • Class D or Class E felonies
  • Unclassified felonies for which the court could sentence you to no more than 5 years by statute; or
  • Motor vehicle violations for which the court could sentence you to no more than 5 years by statute
  • NOTE: If you were convicted of a crime for which the court could have sentenced you to more than 5 years by statute, that crime is not eligible for erasure, even if the court sentenced you to 5 years or less for that crime
• You are not blocked from erasure.
  • NOTE: Crimes that are blocked from erasure include:
    • A violation of General Statutes § 14-227a if you were convicted of another violation of § 14-227a within 10 years of your conviction.
    • Sexually violent crimes
    • Nonviolent sexual crimes
    • Crimes listed in General Statutes § 54-142a (e)(2)(C) 
• You have not been convicted of another crime:
• Within the last 7 years if you are asking the court to erase a misdemeanor conviction; or
• Within the last 10 years if you are asking the court to erase a felony conviction.
• You have completed serving the sentence of imprisonment, including any type of parole, special parole, or transitional supervision, and any period of probation that you were sentenced to for:
  •  The crime(s) that you are asking the court to erase, and 
  • Any other crime that you were convicted of in state court on or after January 1, 2000

2. File the completed petition for Clean Slate erasure

File form JD-CR-202 with the court where you were sentenced for the conviction(s) you want the court to erase.

• If you want the court to erase convictions in more than one docket number, you have to file a separate form for each docket number
• If you were sentenced in one of the following courts that have since closed, file your petition at the court location listed below:
  • G.A. 6 at New Haven - file the petition at G.A. 23 at New Haven
  • G.A. 8 at New Haven - file the petition at G.A. 23 at New Haven
  • G.A. 13 at Enfield - file the petition at G.A. 14 at Hartford
  • G.A. 16 at West Hartford - file the petition at G.A. 14 at Hartford
  • G.A. 17 at Bristol - file the petition at G.A. 15 at New Britain
  • G.A. 20 at Norwalk - file the petition at G.A. 1 at Stamford

3. The court will review your petition

The court will either:

• Order your conviction(s) to be erased without a hearing, or
• Schedule a hearing on your petition to decide whether your conviction(s) should be erased