Shorewood, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A criminal record happens whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will normally constantly remain on the person's state criminal record up until a legal movement (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a certain time period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary commitments owed to the court have been fully pleased. And there need to not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, a lot of municipal & district courts will normally give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might lawfully state on future job 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 particular misdemeanor sex crimes can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (cops arrest records, jail booking records, fingerprints/ images (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 many years. Local detaining cops 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, individuals might make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These demands need to be made to both the local detaining cops agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally 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 considering that the date of the old arrest 

The site 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 used by landlords to reject rental real estate/ apartment or condos and by employers 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 cops criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction data.