Ex-Arizona sheriff doesn’t want conviction raised the future

PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio urged an appeals court Wednesday to erase the lawman’s now-pardoned criminal conviction so it can’t be raised against him in any future court cases.
The former six-term sheriff from metro Phoenix is appealing a ruling that refused to expunge his conviction for disobeying a 2011 court order barring his traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. The 2017 ruling said pardons don’t erase convictions or the facts of cases