Stevens, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFO

A criminal record happens whenever an individual is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will usually constantly stay on the individual's state rap sheet till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the exact same court after a particular time period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is usually 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have actually been fully pleased. And there must not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests considering that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are met, a lot of municipal & district courts will usually give motions to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, an individual is limited to only one trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and specific misdemeanor sex criminal offenses can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (cops arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for many years. Local detaining cops agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, individuals may make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These demands must be made to both the regional detaining cops firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will usually be approved if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data sought to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed considering that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can likewise be used by property owners to deny rental housing/ apartments and by companies to deny task applications, task promos, etc. Protect your task and future. Call Stevens rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court rap sheet and old cops criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old cops criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction data.