Rehabilitation in French right

The rehabilitation allows a person penally condemned to more see itself opposing by thirds its judgment.

The judgment does not produce any more effects of right (prohibitions, forfeitures, incapacities cease), and it is interdict to point out the judgment, in particular with the Police records. Nevertheless, when the person was condemned to a socio-legal Suivi, or with the sorrow of prohibition to carry on an community activity or voluntary implying a usual contact with minors, the rehabilitation takes effect only at the end of measurement.

From the March 7th, 2008, the rehabilitation will not make any more disappear the judgment from the bulletin n°1 (reserved with the legal authorities), but only from the bulletin n°2 (administrations and assimilated).

There are two forms of rehabilitation:

the full rehabilitation which automatically takes place after an amount of time which depends on the judgment, for example:

10 years after the judgment for the sorrows of less than 10 years
5 years after the judgment for the sorrows of less than 1 year

the legal rehabilitation which is a request to be rehabilitated earlier, or to be rehabilitated nevertheless when it is not automatic, for example after sorrows of more than 10 years.

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