Connor’s criminal past started with police forcing open his door in the early morning hours five years ago, and it disappeared, give or take a few months, with a phone call to a state hotline last January.
The arrest, which netted less than half a kilogram of marijuana, still made headlines in the small town about 200 miles south of Chicago, and was followed by a guilty plea, 30 days in the Shelby County jail and two years of probation, and a lot of uncertainty about the future, thanks to a record that would mark Connor with a Class 4 felony for what he assumed would be the rest of his life.
