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The attorney for former Chicago officer who fatally shot Rekia Boyd in 2012 is working to give his client the “fresh start he deserves.”

However, the Chicago prosecutor and the victim’s family aren’t for it. Dante Servin was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter the Chicago Tribune reported.

Now 4½ years after the acquittal, Servin’s attorney claims his client has been “tormented” and wants to eliminate any official public record of the criminal charges he once faced. If he’s successful all traces of the charges will disappear from public information and law enforcement databases. If successful, evidence of prior charges against Servin would vanish from both public view and police databases, making it possible for him to enter the law enforcement field again. Attorney Matt Fakhoury alleges the 51-year-old has had a tough time finding a job and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and “extreme depression.”

“We’re trying to get him the fresh start he deserves,” said Fakhoury, according to the newspaper.

The attempts to have Servin’s record erased has caused criticism from Chicago prosecutors, who are against the change. Boyd’s family is also outraged on the proposal. Boyd’s brother Martinez Sutton said, “I don’t believe he can be trusted. I’m still perturbed that this guy is still out here and he’s able to roam around like this.”

“If a judge is stating that, if anything, this case should have been charged as murder, then why should he be able to live a free and happy life and his so-called blemishes erased?” Sutton added.

Servin fatally shot Boyd in March 2012 after firing around out of his car window. The former officer who was off-duty at the time and in plainclothes was driving close-by Chicago’s Westside when he got into an encounter with a group of teens about the noise. Boyd and her friends were standing and talking nearby.

Then when one of the teens approached Servin’s car, he said he believed the teen had a weapon, causing him to pull his gun and fire a shot out of the car window. The bullet grazed the teen but struck Rekia Boyd who was talking and laughing with friends just feet away.

A hearing is set for next month to decide Servin’s expungement.

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