A motor vehicle violation committed as an adult does not cancel out a person’s right to have his or her juvenile record expunged, a majority of Delaware Supreme Court justices have ruled. The decision reversed a Family Court petition denying a woman’s petition for expungement of her juvenile record because she had three motor-vehicle violations between the ages of 18 and 21.
Justice Karen Valihura, who joined the court this summer, authored a dissent in the case, Fuller v. Delaware. The dissent marked Valihura’s first opinion as a Delaware Supreme Court justice. She said, under Delaware law, traffic violations are “subsequent adult convictions” for the purposes of expungement.
