Stevens, WA: CRIMINAL RECORD EXPUNGE INFORMATION

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

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

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited 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/ pictures (mugshots) records, etc) take place 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 keep 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 usually 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 because 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 property managers 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 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, finger prints, pictures and other nonconviction data.