Shorewood, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet takes place whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will normally always stay on the individual's state rap sheet till a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a particular period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, most local & district courts will normally grant motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

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

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

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for several years. Local apprehending police companies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both retain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands need to be made to both the regional apprehending police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally be approved if there have actually been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed considering that the date of the old arrest 

The site for the Washington State Criminal History Area is http://www.wsp.wa.gov/crime/crimhist.htm.

Nonconviction information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by proprietors to reject rental housing/ homes and by companies to reject task applications, task promos, and so on. Secure your task and future. Call Shorewood rap sheet expungement lawyer 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, images and other nonconviction information.