Shorewood, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE DETAILS

A criminal record takes place whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will normally constantly remain on the person's state criminal record up until a legal movement (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a certain time period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is normally 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 considering that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, a lot of community & district courts will normally give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to only 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, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for many years. Regional arresting police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written requests to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These requests need to be made to both the regional arresting police firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such requests will normally be granted if there have been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, and over 3 years have passed considering 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by property managers to reject rental housing/ homes and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Secure your job and future. Call Shorewood criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction information.