Ridgecrest, 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 typically always stay on the individual's state rap sheet up until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a particular time period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial commitments owed to the court have actually been totally satisfied. And there should not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, the majority of municipal & district courts will typically grant movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction data (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ photos (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional jailing police 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, persons might make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction data. These requests should be made to both the local jailing police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will typically be approved if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have actually passed because 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 housing/ apartment or condos and by companies to reject job applications, job promotions, etc

. Safeguard your job and future. Call Ridgecrest rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court rap sheet and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, photos and other nonconviction data.