Shawnee, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record occurs whenever an individual is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually always remain on the person's state rap sheet up until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a certain time period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary commitments owed to the court have been fully pleased. And there should not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, a lot of municipal & district courts will usually give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

An individual whose criminal conviction is vacated may lawfully mention on future job applications that he/she has never had a rap sheet.

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

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Local jailing police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These requests should be made to both the local jailing police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will usually be given if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have passed considering that 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 data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property managers to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Shawnee 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, pictures and other nonconviction data.

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property managers to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Shawnee 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, pictures and other nonconviction data.