Stevens, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet occurs whenever a person is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will generally constantly stay on the person's state criminal record up until a legal movement (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 before the very same court after a particular time period. For the majority of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time period is generally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all monetary obligations owed to the court have actually been completely satisfied. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction looked for to be vacated. If all these preconditions are met, the majority of municipal & district courts will generally give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

An individual whose criminal conviction is vacated might legally mention on future job applications that he/she has never ever had a criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is restricted to just one holiday of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and certain misdemeanor sex crimes can not be vacated.

Nonconviction data (cops arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed but no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction data are held by Washington State police for several years. Local arresting cops companies & 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 might make written demands to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction data. These demands must be made to both the local arresting cops company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will generally be approved if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction data looked for to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed given that the date of the old arrest 

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

Nonconviction data, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by proprietors to reject rental housing/ apartments and by employers to reject job applications, job promos, and so on. Safeguard your job and future. Call Stevens criminal record expungement legal representative 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, finger prints, images and other nonconviction data.