Stevens, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE DETAILS

A rap sheet occurs 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 up until a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the exact same court after a particular 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 obligations owed to the court have actually been completely pleased. And there must not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are fulfilled, the majority of municipal & district courts will usually give movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the person no longer having a criminal record for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated might legally mention on future task applications that he/she has never ever had a criminal record.

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

Nonconviction information (cops arrest records, prison booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever filed in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State police for several years. Regional arresting cops firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons might make written requests to expunge/delete such cops nonconviction information. These requests must be made to both the local arresting cops firm and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such requests will usually be given if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information sought to be erased, and over 3 years have actually passed given 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 information, like criminal conviction records, can also be utilized by proprietors to deny rental housing/ homes and by companies to deny task applications, task promos, and so on. Protect your task 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, images and other nonconviction information.