70-Year-Old Man's Record Expunged

A 70-year-old man from West Chester got his criminal record from 1958 expunged through a little-used state statute.
      
More than 50 years ago, Clifford Orton Moon Sr. was sentenced to three years of probation for stealing a steering wheel and a carburetor from junkyards in suburban Philadelphia. Moon said he did it because he wanted some automobile parts.
      
That criminal record kept him from getting a gun permit or a hunting license.
      
But Moon, who now lives in Hereford, Ariz., may be able to head out hunting this year.
      
A Chester County judge has signed an order expunging his record after prosecutors said they would not oppose it.
      
The order came under a provision in Pennsylvania's expungement statute that permits people who are at least 70 years old and have been crime free for at least 10 years to have their records erased.
 
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