Cowley, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A criminal record happens whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly remain on the person's state rap sheet till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a certain time period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary obligations owed to the court have actually been fully satisfied. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most community & district courts will usually grant motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

An individual whose criminal conviction is vacated may legally mention on future task applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, an individual is restricted to just one trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and particular misdemeanor sex criminal offenses can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ photos (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Local arresting police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands must be made to both the local arresting police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be granted if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information looked for to be deleted, and over 3 years have actually passed given that the date of the old arrest 

The website for the Washington State Criminal History Section is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can also be used by property managers to deny rental housing/ apartments and by companies to deny task applications, task promotions, and so on. Safeguard your task and future. Call Cowley rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old police criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, photos and other nonconviction information.