The legal saga of former Nevada County supervisor Terry Lamphier has finally ended. He pleaded no contest a year ago to one misdemeanor charge of using a state-owned computer to access obscene material. And now, after completing a year of probation, a judge has granted his petition to dismiss the conviction. District Attorney Cliff Newell says state law allows anyone to seek a dismissal, if they served no prison time. And people do it fairly often…

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But Newell says the district attorney’s office does provide feedback for such petitions…

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Newell says Lamphier had no significant criminal history. Lamphier was running for a seat on the Grass Valley City Council when his home was raided by the sheriff’s department about a week before the November 2014 election. But he resigned two days after he was sworn in, in January of 2015. Later that month, he turned himself in and faced three misdemeanor charges of possessing digital obscene images of a person under 18.