Lakewood, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record happens whenever a person is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly stay on the individual's state criminal record till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a particular 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 financial commitments owed to the court have been totally satisfied. And there need to not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, the majority of local & district courts will usually approve motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Regional apprehending police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction information.

The website for the Washington State Criminal History Section 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 employers to deny task applications, task promotions, etc. Protect your task and future. Call Lakewood criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record 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, pictures and other nonconviction information.

The website for the Washington State Criminal History Section 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 employers to deny task applications, task promotions, etc. Protect your task and future. Call Lakewood criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record 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, pictures and other nonconviction information.