Shawnee, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will generally always stay on the individual's state rap sheet up until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the same court after a specific time period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have been fully pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most community & district courts will generally give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may legally mention on future job applications that he/she has never had a rap sheet.

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

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Local apprehending police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These demands must be made to both the local apprehending police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will generally be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed considering that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ houses and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Shawnee rap sheet expungement legal representative 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, images and other nonconviction data.

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ houses and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Shawnee rap sheet expungement legal representative 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, images and other nonconviction data.