Pontiac, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet happens whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly remain on the person's state criminal record up until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a particular period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been completely pleased. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are met, most local & district courts will usually grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional arresting police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals might make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands need to be made to both the regional arresting police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be given if there have been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have passed since the date of the old arrest 

The website 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 property owners to deny rental real estate/ apartment or condos and by companies to deny job applications, job promos, etc. Protect your job and future. Call Pontiac 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, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction information.