Timberlane, WA: RAP SHEET EXPUNGE INFO

A rap sheet takes place whenever an individual is founded guilty of a crime by a court. The criminal conviction will typically constantly stay on the individual's state rap sheet till a legal motion (demand) to vacate conviction is brought under RCW 9.96.060 prior to the very same court after a specific time period. For a lot of criminal misdemeanor & gross misdemeanor convictions, the time duration is typically 3 to 5 years after court probation ends and after all financial obligations owed to the court have been completely satisfied. And there should not be any brand-new criminal convictions/ charges/ arrests because the conviction sought to be vacated. If all these prerequisites are satisfied, a lot of community & district courts will typically approve movements to vacate a criminal conviction. That results in the individual no longer having a rap sheet for that specific conviction.

A person whose criminal conviction is vacated may lawfully 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 trip of a misdemeanor criminal conviction. Convictions for DUIs and particular misdemeanor sex criminal activities can not be vacated.

Nonconviction information (police arrest records, prison booking records, fingerprints/ images (mugshots) records, etc) happen whenever an individual is arrested/jailed but 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 firms & the Washington State Patrol Criminal History Area in Olympia, WA both keep nonconviction information.

The site 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 used by proprietors to reject rental housing/ apartments and by employers to reject job applications, job promotions, etc. Safeguard your job and future. Call Timberlane rap sheet expungement legal representative attorney Paul Hanson to assist you clear your old court rap sheet and old police criminal history. He'll assist vacate you vacate old court criminal convictions and expunge/delete old police criminal history, arrest records, fingerprints, images and other nonconviction information.