With Marijuana Felony Expunged, Oregon Man Has 'Tears Of Joy' [View all]

by Chris Lehman
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When Tim McClure was 42 years old, he was convicted of illegally growing marijuana on his ranch near The Dalles, Oregon. And at this time last year, McClure was living with the shame of being a felon.

“I don’t think it’s the measure of me as a man,” McClure said 2015.

He said it was supposed to be a small grow for some medical marijuana patients but ended up being a little larger than planned. He pled guilty and was fined, but never served any time behind bars.

In the years since then he stayed out of trouble with the law. But his business failed, his marriage fell apart and some of his friends never spoke to him again.

McClure said the conviction was a weight he just couldn’t shake off.

“I’m an unlikely convicted felon, I think,” McClure said last year. “I think after 15 years there ought to be some remedy available to me.”

It turns out, after 16 years, there was.

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