The series held the record for the most-watched scripted drama episode in cable television history from 2009 through 2012 (broken by The Walking Dead) with Mr. Monk and the End â Part II, its series finale, with 9.4 million viewers, 3.2 million of them in the 18â49 demographic.
In the common law legal system, an expungement proceeding is a type of lawsuit in which a first time offender of a prior criminal conviction seeks that the records of that earlier process be sealed, making the records unavailable through the state or Federal repositories. If successful, the records are said to be expunged. Black's Law Dictionary defines expungement of record as the Process by which record of criminal conviction is destroyed or sealed from the state or Federal repository..
For better or worse, the fact is that in the state of New York, you cannot expunge your criminal record. A record that is expunged is permanently erased.