The phrase "a clean criminal" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe someone with a criminal record that has been expunged or someone who has not committed any crimes, but the phrasing is contradictory.
Example: "After years of rehabilitation, he was finally recognized as a clean criminal, free from his past mistakes."
Alternatives: "a reformed criminal" or "an ex-offender".
You might think that anyone who rises to the top of a public company would have a clean criminal record.
The Constitution allows states to precondition voting on certain objective factors like citizenship, residency, age and a clean criminal record.
But the police in Aurora said that he had a clean criminal record and that he had not been on their radar.
Bassi said officials were also seeking to establish how the alleged rapist, named as Shiv Kumar Yadav, obtained a police certificate showing a clean criminal record.
In court papers, Mr. Pearson said that he had a license to carry the pistol in question in Maryland and that he had a clean criminal record.
Though my credentials got me the interview, I'm pretty sure I got the job because of a clean criminal record, inoffensive breath and a pulse rate.
And it helps if you're an American with a squeaky clean criminal record, too.
According to his family and friends, the physics graduate was nothing more than a gentle, nature-loving soul who possessed a love for hiking and a squeaky clean criminal record — before his indictment, that is.
Howard is surprised to learn Vaughn has a mostly clean criminal record, and his family insists Vaughn would never kill anybody.
Earlier this year, the Obama Administration began implementing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a plan that allows undocumented immigrants who first entered the country as children, have graduated from high school, college or serve in the military and have clean criminal records a chance to remain in America without fearing deportation.
He went on to cite Turner's clean criminal record and a belief that the former Stanford student would not commit another assault as additional reasons for the lenient sentence .
