Shawnee, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

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

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might legally state on future job applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

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

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

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons might make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands must be made to both the local arresting police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally be given if there have actually been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed because the date of the old arrest 

The site 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 used by proprietors to deny rental housing/ homes and by companies to deny job applications, job promotions, etc. Safeguard your job and future. Call Shawnee criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.

The site 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 used by proprietors to deny rental housing/ homes and by companies to deny job applications, job promotions, etc. Safeguard your job and future. Call Shawnee criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.