San Leandro, CA Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

Call the court clerk and see if you can pay the bond to get a new court date. Otherwise, hire an attorney to get your warrant lifted and handle the underlying charges for you.

Records are forever. Anyone with access sees your entire record, whatever it may contain. That includes all law enforcement, plus employers, landlords, lenders, and credit agencies given authority by you to look, and PIs with access despite the rules. Your record may be missing items because of court negligence in submission. It happens. However, you can consider getting the conviction expunged; which would help in obtaining and keeping employment. Many convictions can be 'expunged' from criminal records by proper application and Petition to the court, but only if there was no felony prison time sentenced whether served or not, and if it was not for certain listed Sexual and Domestic Violence crimes, and if all terms of sentencing and at least one year of probation are completed, and if there are no new charges pending. If successful, the conviction would be withdrawn and the charges dismissed. Expungement does not clear, 'remove' or erase the conviction, but merely changes the record to show 'conviction reversed and dismissed by expungement'. When applying for a job in the private sector, you generally do not have to disclose a conviction if it was expunged. However, the conviction is still a 'prior' or 'strike' for purposes of repeat offense, and must be disclosed on any application for government and professional employment and licensing, bonding, security clearance, etc. The licensing agency and employer then can decide whether you are barred from licensing or employment because of the conviction. If youre serious about doing this, and you think you qualify under those rules, feel free to contact me for the legal help you'll need.