Issue Encyclopedia · Guideline J · Criminal Conduct
Homicide
Does homicide affect a security clearance?
Basis: 57 decided hearing-level cases raising this issue. Descriptive history of decided cases, not a prediction.
Decided cases
57
hearing-level decisions raising this issue
Granted
18%
10 granted · 47 denied or revoked
Official mitigating conditions cited
| Condition | In granted cases | In denied cases |
|---|---|---|
| ¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual | 9 | 9 |
| ¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown | 6 | 6 |
| ¶ 32(b) · The person acted under pressure that is unlikely to recur | 4 | 3 |
| ¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense | 2 | 5 |
¶ 32(a) · So much time has passed, or the circumstances were so unusual
- In granted cases
- 9
- In denied cases
- 9
¶ 32(d) · Successful rehabilitation shown
- In granted cases
- 6
- In denied cases
- 6
¶ 32(b) · The person acted under pressure that is unlikely to recur
- In granted cases
- 4
- In denied cases
- 3
¶ 32(c) · No reliable evidence that the person committed the offense
- In granted cases
- 2
- In denied cases
- 5
Circumstances credited in granted cases
- passage of time · credited in 1 granted case
- rehabilitation evidence · credited in 1 granted case
Recent decided examples
The judge found that the applicant mitigated the trustworthiness concerns regarding criminal conduct. The applicant's eligibility to occupy a public trust position was granted, despite a prior convict…
The judge found that the allegations under Guideline E were withdrawn, resulting in no findings against the applicant. Therefore, the personal conduct concerns were not substantiated, and the applican…
Applicant, a defense contractor employee, was denied eligibility for a security clearance after the judge found against him on Guideline J and Guideline E. The record showed juvenile attempted murder,…
Applicant, a 55 year old IT technician, was denied a security clearance after the judge found a long history of serious criminal conduct, including drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and a 16 year fe…
Related issues under Guideline J
- Unspecified Criminal Conduct (2,130)
- DUI / DWI (criminal charge) (1,089)
- Drug-Related Criminal Charge (820)
- Assault or Battery (596)
- Fraud or Deception (Criminal) (526)
- Theft or Larceny (431)
How these numbers are measured
Scope: decided hearing-level cases whose per-allegation profile records this issue, matched to the same issue value the search filters use, so a count here and a filtered search always agree. A case raising several issues counts under each one. The mitigating conditions and the credited circumstances below were extracted for a subset of the record, so both are counts of cases rather than rates. Pages exist only for issues with at least 25 decided cases, and † marks any split built on fewer than 20.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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