Stevens, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet occurs whenever an individual is founded guilty of a criminal offense by a court. The criminal conviction will normally constantly stay on the person's state rap sheet up until 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 many 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 actually been totally pleased. And there need to not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests since the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, many community & district courts will normally give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a rap sheet for that particular conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may legally specify on future job applications that he/she has never ever had a rap sheet.

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

Nonconviction data (authorities arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever an individual is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Local jailing authorities firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction data.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written requests to expunge/delete such authorities nonconviction data. These requests need to be made to both the regional jailing authorities agency and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will normally be granted if there have actually been no charges within 2 years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed since 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 managers to deny rental housing/ houses and by employers to deny job applications, job promotions, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Stevens rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old authorities criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old authorities criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction data.