Shawnee, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person is convicted of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will generally always stay on the individual's state rap sheet up until a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the same court after a specific period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial commitments owed to the court have been completely pleased. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, the majority of municipal & district courts will generally give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Regional detaining police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands need to be made to both the local detaining police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will generally be approved if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be utilized by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ homes and by companies to reject task applications, task promotions, etc. Safeguard your task and future. Call Shawnee rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet 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, pictures and other nonconviction information.

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 likewise be utilized by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ homes and by companies to reject task applications, task promotions, etc. Safeguard your task and future. Call Shawnee rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet 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, pictures and other nonconviction information.