Cowley, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is convicted of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually always remain on the individual's state rap sheet until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a specific 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 financial obligations owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most municipal & district courts will usually grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may lawfully specify on future task applications that he/she has never had a rap sheet.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to only one holiday of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex crimes can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for many years. Regional detaining police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction information.

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

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

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by landlords to deny rental housing/ apartment or condos and by companies to deny task applications, task promos, etc. Secure 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, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction information.