Noble, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet occurs whenever an individual is convicted of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will normally constantly remain on the individual's state criminal record till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a certain period. For many criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been completely pleased. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are satisfied, many community & district courts will normally approve movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place 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 several years. Local detaining police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both retain 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 regional detaining police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally be granted if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have passed given that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by property owners to reject rental real estate/ apartment or condos and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Noble criminal record expungement lawyer 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 data.