Seattle, 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 normally always remain on the person's state rap sheet till a legal motion (request) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the same court after a certain period. For most criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is normally 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial responsibilities owed to the court have actually been totally pleased. And there need to not be any new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests given that the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these preconditions are met, most local & district courts will normally approve movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That leads to the person no longer having a criminal record 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 criminal record.

Under RCW 9.96.060, a person is limited to just one vacation of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and particular misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, jail booking records, finger prints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) occur whenever a person is arrested/jailed however no criminal charges are ever submitted in court. Such nonconviction information are held by Washington State law enforcement agencies for many years. Regional jailing police agencies & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both maintain nonconviction information.

Under RCW 10.97.060 and WAC 446-16-025, persons may make written demands to expunge/delete such police nonconviction information. These demands need to be made to both the local jailing police company and to the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA. Such demands will normally be approved if there have actually been no charges within two years of the nonconviction information sought to be deleted, 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 likewise be utilized by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ homes and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Safeguard your job and future. Call Seattle rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old police criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.

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 likewise be utilized by proprietors to reject rental real estate/ homes and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Safeguard your job and future. Call Seattle rap sheet expungement lawyer attorney Paul Hanson to help you clear your old court rap sheet and old police criminal history. He'll help vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, finger prints, images and other nonconviction information.