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DON'T BE FOOLED: |
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Don't be tricked into paying
expensive attorney fees that go to support the inflated
salaries of large law firms!
Your California expungement
can be completed for only $300.00!
(more) |
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INFORMATION: |
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Most states require a period of
good behavior (crime free) from the date your sentence ended
before being eligible for an expungement or seal.
Generally, this is a period of 2 years or more
depending on the state your offense occurred.
A criminal record or rap
sheet, is a compilation of an individual's identification,
arrest, conviction (law), incarceration, legal status, sex
offender registration, warrant information, and other
relevant criminal history.
Its primary goal is to provide a
comprehensive criminal history for an individual to be used
for many purposes, including for identification, assistance
in developing suspects in an ongoing criminal investigation,
and for enhanced sentencing in criminal prosecutions.
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Expungement, pardons, and sealing records in the
State of
California |
 Contrary
to popular belief, criminal records are not cleared
automatically with the passage of time, but require the
filing and granting of a Petition for relief in Court.
California's expungement law permits us to
petition the court to re-open the case, set aside the
plea, and dismiss the case.
In order for one to qualify for expungement, they must
have completed probation, paid all fines and
restitution, not served a sentence in state prison
(see California Pardon
if you served time in a state prison) for the
offense, and not currently being charged with a crime.
If the requirements are met for eligibility, a court may
grant the petition if it finds that it would be in the
interest of justice to do so.
 Once your record is successfully expunged you do not have to
disclose the conviction to anyone else. On employment, housing
and education applications, you will not have to reveal any of
your past criminal history. Your criminal record is treated as
it had never occurred before.
California Expungement: An expungement relieves the defendant of certain
penalties and disabilities that result from a
criminal action. Under California law, once a case
is expunged you are no longer required to disclose
these convictions on job applications and in
interviews for certain jobs.
California Seal: Sealing a criminal record means to remove the
specific record from public view. When a criminal
history record is sealed, the public will not have
access to it. Sealed records remain in a
confidential file on the Department of Justice’s
computer but it does not show up on record checks
such as background checks done by employers.
California Pardon: A
pardon in California is a last resort for people who do
not qualify for expungement or sealing.
A pardon is a distinct achievement based upon proof
of a useful, productive and law-abiding life
following conviction (minimum of 10 years for a
pardon). A person who receives a pardon
may serve on a jury. A full pardon will enable one
to possess any type of weapon that may lawfully be
possessed by others in California.
If you were arrested for or convicted of the
following offenses before January 1, 1976, you can
request for the record to be purged:
Possession of “not more than 28.5 grams of
marijuana”;
Unlawful possession of marijuana paraphernalia;
Unlawful presence in a place where marijuana is
being used;
Unlawfully being under the influence of marijuana.
 When a case is purged, the marijuana arrest and
conviction records are completely removed from the
rap sheet.
A successful expungement will not erase the criminal
record, but rather the finding of guilt will be changed
to a dismissal. The petitioner then
honestly and legally can answer to a question about his
criminal history, with some exceptions, that he has not
been convicted of that crime. |
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Click
here
for detailed information on how Records Removal
Services can expunge, seal, set-aside, vacate, or
pardon your criminal record. |
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State of California Governing Laws: |
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