This page is only applicable to convictions in Califormnia. For information about convcitinos in other states, see our home page.
If you are not facing any current charges or on probation for another offense and your sentence did not involve state prison (as opposed to county jail), California allows you to have your conviction expunged after you complete your probation. If you were not placed on probation, you can have your record expunged one year after your conviction.* See list below for certain sex offenses and high speed pursuit convictions that cannot be expunged.
Expungement allows you to honestly and legally say you have not been convicted of a crime.
If your conviction was a felony that is eligible to be reduced to a misdemeanor, we will include that in the process at no extra charge.
We handle all aspects of the case for you and pay all filing fees for one flat-fee— and we offer a money back guarantee. Misdemeanors are $495** in most counties and felonies are $725. We offer a low-price guarantee and will beat any advertised price by $50.
BENEFITS OF EXPUNGEMENT
Tell employers that you have not been convicted of a crime
Become eligible for student loans
Become eligible for housing assistance
Become eligible for more types of professional licenses and certificates
Tell friends and family that you have not been convicted of a crime
To stop fearing or being embarrassed when someone does a background check on you.
BENEFITS OF USING RECORDGONE.COM
Getting your record expunged can be the best investment you ever make. Having us expunge your record can be the best decision you make. Why choose us:
You will be represented by a lawyer
We will write letters to potential employers explaining expungement
Money back guarantee in writing – If we don’t expunge your record, we refund our fee***
Lowest price guarantee – We will beat any advertised price by $50
Fastest possible results – we start your case within 24 hours
We serve ALL of California
We pay the filing fees
One call starts the process — 877-573-7273
Deep discounts for multiple convictions
Credit cards accepted
Flexible payment plans
BENEFITS A LAW FIRM THAT SPECIALIZES IN EXPUNGEMENT
We are licensed attorneys who specialize in expungement and record clearing. We not only know what it takes to succeed, we also know how to achieve success in less time and for less money— guaranteed. We start working right away on all cases. We file 90% of our cases within 48 hours. so your record gets cleared sooner. Our high volume of expungement cases allows us to charge less by spreading costs, such as costly trips to the court, among several clients. You can pay hundreds of dollars more to other lawyers who do one or two a month, or you can pay a low price to a firm that does several a day. When it comes to expunging, we believe we offer the best value and service.
* The following offenses cannot be expunged: Vehicle Code Section 42001(b); the following sex offenses: Penal Code Section 261(d)(must be reduced to misdemeanor), 286(c), 288, 288a(c), 288.5 and 289(j)
** $550 in the following courts: Alameda - (All except Hayward), Butte, Humboldt, Kern, Monterey, Placer, Sacramento, San Diego (El Cajon Court (East)), San Francisco, Santa Barbara (Santa Maria Court), Santa Clara, Solano, Stanislaus.Imperial (El Centro is an $800 for misdemeanors and $1,150 for felonies)
*** See written guarantee details for important limitations and exception
(a) Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, carry, lead, or drive away the personal property of another, or who shall fraudulently appropriate property which has been entrusted to him or her, or who shall knowingly and designedly, by any false or fraudulent representation or pretense, defraud any other person of money, labor or real or personal property, or who causes or procures others to report falsely of his or her wealth or mercantile character and by thus imposing upon any person, obtains credit and thereby fraudulently gets or obtains possession of money, or property or obtains the labor or service of another, is guilty of theft. In determining the value of the property obtained, for the purposes of this section, the reasonable and fair market value shall be the test, and in determining the value of services received the contract price shall be the test. If there be no contract price, the reasonable and going wage for the service rendered shall govern. For the purposes of this section, any false or fraudulent representation or pretense made shall be treated as continuing, so as to cover any money, property or service received as a result thereof, and the complaint, information or indictment may charge that the crime was committed on any date during the particular period in question. The hiring of any additional employee or employees without advising each of them of every labor claim due and unpaid and every judgment that the employer has been unable to meet shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud.
(b) (1) Except as provided in Section 10855 of the Vehicle Code, where a person has leased or rented the personal property of another person pursuant to a written contract, and that property has a value greater than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and is not a commonly used household item, intent to commit theft by fraud shall be rebuttably presumed if the person fails to return the personal property to its owner within 10 days after the owner has made written demand by certified or registered mail following the expiration of the lease or rental agreement for return of the property so leased or rented.
(2) Except as provided in Section 10855 of the Vehicle Code, where a person has leased or rented the personal property of another person pursuant to a written contract, and where the property has a value no greater than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or where the property is a commonly used household item, intent to commit theft by fraud shall be rebuttably presumed if the person fails to return the personal property to its owner within 20 days after the owner has made written demand by certified or registered mail following the expiration of the lease or rental agreement for return of the property so leased or rented.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b), if one presents with criminal intent identification which bears a false or fictitious name or address for the purpose of obtaining the lease or rental of the personal property of another, the presumption created herein shall apply upon the failure of the lessee to return the rental property at the expiration of the lease or rental agreement, and no written demand for the return of the leased or rented property shall be required.
(d) The presumptions created by subdivisions (b) and (c) are presumptions affecting the burden of producing evidence.
(e) Within 30 days after the lease or rental agreement has expired, the owner shall make written demand for return of the property so leased or rented. Notice addressed and mailed to the lessee or renter at the address given at the time of the making of the lease or rental agreement and to any other known address shall constitute proper demand. Where the owner fails to make such written demand the presumption created by subdivision (b) shall not apply.
