Renton, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A rap sheet happens whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will normally always remain on the person's state rap sheet until a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a certain period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, the majority of municipal & district courts will normally 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 may lawfully mention on future task applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to just one vacation of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (cops arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Local arresting cops firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These demands need to be made to both the regional arresting cops agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally be given if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have actually 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 landlords to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task and future. Call Renton rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old cops criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction data.