UK
A related concept in the UK is the automatic spent conviction for certain less severe criminal offences, introduced in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; the conviction is not actually made void, but is considered to be spent after a rehabilitation period, and need not be divulged in most circumstances. If details of a spent conviction are made public by others with malice, the publisher may be subject to libel damages despite the fact that what is said is true. By contrast, under United States law, truth is a complete defense to charges of libel and slander. The only form of true statement actionable under U.S. defamation law is "public disclosure of private facts", which would be inapplicable here because the existence of the non-voided conviction is a matter of public record.
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