A lawyer convicted of vehicular homicide, who failed to timely complete her probation or pay her fines and was disbarred by consent amid ethics charges, was properly found ineligible for early expungement, a state appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
The Appellate Division agreed with an Essex County judge that Olivia Howard, formerly an East Orange solo, had shown no special circumstances warranting favorable treatment under a 2010 statute that allows shortening the usual 10-year wait for expungement.
