Expunged

Expunged is a fictionalized story based on the life of Shaun Flowers, who at the age of eighteen found himself jailed for a petty misdemeanor. Until this unfortunate incident, Shaun had ended his secondary education with all the academic requisites and social skills for a promising future career. He was indeed the community's promising son. Rather than allow a damning and out-of-proportion criminal record negate a productive future, as was the case for multitudes of men of color during this period of time, Shaun and his family after a laborious and tortuous journey attained an expungement of his record. After excelling in college with a bachelor's degree in juvenile justice, Shaun pursued a career in criminal justice. In 1986 he became a police officer and three months after graduating from the police academy was selected to go undercover to help stem the onset of the crack cocaine epidemic in a major city.. He became one of their best undercover narcotics officers, buying guns and large amounts of assorted drugs resulting in myriad arrests. Throughout, however, Shaun never abandoned his fidelity and social attachments to family and the community.