Pontiac, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person 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 certain time period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary responsibilities owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, most local & district courts will usually give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to only one trip 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, fingerprints/ 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 law enforcement agencies for many years. Local apprehending police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both keep 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 must be made to both the regional apprehending police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be given if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed since 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 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. 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, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction information.