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Sucks need a waiver even though i was not convicted at all and the judtice system wrongly chatged me by retrying the grand jury til they could get the indictment aka corrupt
Anyways id rather not get into speciifcs about the case online but i did not attempt to kill or kill anyone. Only to stop the attacker from possibly killing my family member as they intended.
Really sucks i thought the waiver process was if you were convicted of a crime which i have never been. Does it make a difference if its expunged at all and or what can i expect with the waiver process? Also my credit isnt very good either.
You might think that the military would look favorably on a guy who will fight when he needs to. But, apparently not so much anymore.
Seems to me that you were wrongly charged, and your actions were commendable, provided of course you didn't get into this situation as a result of gross bad judgment.
You might think that the military would look favorably on a guy who will fight when he needs to. But, apparently not so much anymore.
Seems to me that you were wrongly charged, and your actions were commendable, provided of course you didn't get into this situation as a result of gross bad judgment.
The waiver is just to make sure this is actually the case. Anyone can proclaim their innocence, but arresting officer records can show insubordinate, disrespect, combativeness, and the dismissal can show that there was a lack of evidence of guilt (vs evidence of innocent) and the Coast Guard gets to decide if they want to hire someone based on the totality of all the documents submitted and full picture of the events as they went down.
Joining the Coast Guard is not a right. The Coast Guard retains the power to decide who to hire.
Sucks need a waiver even though i was not convicted at all and the judtice system wrongly chatged me by retrying the grand jury til they could get the indictment aka corrupt
Anyways id rather not get into speciifcs about the case online but i did not attempt to kill or kill anyone. Only to stop the attacker from possibly killing my family member as they intended.
Really sucks i thought the waiver process was if you were convicted of a crime which i have never been. Does it make a difference if its expunged at all and or what can i expect with the waiver process? Also my credit isnt very good either.
- You will need the arrest records so the commander can see how you treated the responding police officers and their assessment of the situation
- You will need the full court records
- You will need a personal statement explaining everything about the situation
- A letter from the family member you saved corroborating your story may help
- If your credit shows delinquencies that can create a whole second waiver. Needing two waivers probably means the Coast Guard is out for you. It is the hardest branch to join. Fix your credit first!
- You will need a letter of recommendation from a teacher or employeer
- You will need to impress your recruiter with dedication and ethics
That's contrary to the way our legal system operates: you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The question will be have you ever been arrested. Expunging something doesn't take you back in time and erase the event from reality, it just changes the way the event is recorded in the court system.
If you were truly innocent and the charges were dismissed, waiver should be easy.
However, page A-6 says,
"Conviction
An adjudication of guilt by a criminal or civilian authority, either domestic or foreign, including
actions taken tantamount to a finding of guilt, e.g., adjudication withheld; deferred prosecution;
entry in adult/juvenile pretrial intervention programs; or any similar disposition of charges such as
imposition of fines, probation, community service, etc."
This means, if you paid 1 single dollar in fines, they'll treat you as if you were convicted. If you did one single hour of community service, they'll treat you as convicted. If you had deferred prosecution pending a year of good behavior, it is treated as a conviction.
If it was dismissed WITH NO CONDITIONS, zero strings attached, you should be good to go.
For the military, expungement really doesn't mean anything.
It actually really does. It just depends on whether or not your situation is worthy of a waiver.
IE I had two friends who tried to enlist with expunged records. One got a waiver and the other didn’t... mostly it was due to how and why the expungement happened. This was last year.
You might think that the military would look favorably on a guy who will fight when he needs to. But, apparently not so much anymore.
Not as much as they look favorably on someone who will follow orders they don't like. Not even following laws of our Nation is not a good sign that someone is a compliant order follower.
This link mentions since I had paid no fines did nothing basically but had it dismissed i may not even have to mention it? Can confirm this is true?
Completely not true.
The legal document you sign says have you ever been arrested? Have you ever been cited? Have you ever been ticketed?
It doesn't say "have you ever had a charge that wasn't expunged or dismissed."
It happened, you were arrested, or ticketed, or cited... so you must disclose it or risk a fraudulent enlistment or denial of enlistment. You might not need a waiver if there were legitimately zero consquences and it was dismissed WITHOUT a single condition.
I'm not sure what you mean by you "basically" had it dismissed. What it deferred adjuduction, meaning it was dismissed after a certain amount of time without you getting in trouble? If so, still counts. Or was it dismissed because they judge was like "Whoa, you obviously didn't do this crime, so case dismissed" because if that's the case, you might not need a waiver. If the judge was like "Looks like this is your first offense, so I'll be nice and dismiss it" then you need a waiver. Dismissed for a lack of guilt is way different than dismissed for mercy, at least in the eyes of the military.
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