Stevens, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person is convicted of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly stay on the person's state criminal record up until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a specific time period. For the majority of 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 been completely satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are met, the majority of municipal & district courts will usually give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction information (cops arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional arresting cops firms & 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 might make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction information. These demands must be made to both the local arresting cops firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be approved if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information sought to be erased, and over 3 years have passed given that 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 utilized by proprietors to deny rental housing/ apartment or condos and by employers to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Safeguard your task and future. Call Stevens criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old cops criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.