Renton, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record takes place whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will generally constantly stay on the person's state criminal record until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a particular time period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary commitments owed to the court have been fully satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, most local & district courts will generally grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a criminal record for that particular conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might legally specify on future task applications that he/she has never had a criminal record.

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

Nonconviction data (authorities arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for several years. Local apprehending authorities 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 might make written requests to expunge/delete such authorities nonconviction data. These requests must be made to both the regional apprehending authorities company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will generally be approved if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data looked for 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 likewise be utilized by landlords to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject task applications, task promotions, etc. Protect your task and future. Call Renton criminal record expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record and old authorities criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old authorities criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction data.