In 2016 the expungement laws have changed. In NJ, if you are on drug court and your felon is applicable you can get your ENTIRE criminal history expunged. This is great news and a step in the right direction, but what about the people who aren't on drug court. Recently, I wrote an expungement lawyer seeing if I now qualify for expungement since the law has changed. This is the response I received: You cannot expunge the felony because you have more than two disorderly persons convictions. Theoretically, if you were arrested again and completed drug court, your entire history would be eligible for expungement. I can't recommend committing another crime, but if you got into drug court and completed it, your whole history may be expunged. Basically, I'm being told (and he obviously cannot legally say commit more crime) that if I do commit another crime and receive drug court that I would be able to get my record expunged, but that i don't qualify otherwise. What is wrong with this picture? Commit more crime?! I'm doing the right thing, why should I have to do what's wrong? That's what put me in this position in the first place!!