Snohomish, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFORMATION

A criminal record takes place whenever a person is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly remain on the person's state criminal record till a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a certain time period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary responsibilities owed to the court have actually been fully pleased. And there need to not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are fulfilled, the majority of local & district courts will usually grant motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) happen 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 arresting police firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA both retain 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 arresting police agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Section in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be given 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 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 property owners to reject rental real estate/ apartments and by companies to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Protect your job and future. Call Snohomish criminal record expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court criminal record and old police criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction information.