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YES! We will not charge you any more for the services we provide. However, while court costs, filing fees, copy expenses, and our legal fees are fully covered by our flat fee, there are two charges that you might have to pay separately:
We are happy to accept almost all types of payment, including:
We will not charge you any fees for the payment method you use. However, be aware that your bank or financial institution might charge you a fee (for example, while we will not charge you a fee to receive a wire transfer, your bank might charge you a fee to send the wire transfer).
Also, any payment you make to us that is not in United States dollars will be automatically converted to United States dollars by a financial intermediary (which will deduct conversion fees from your payment), and only the converted amount in United States dollars that we receive will be credited as payment to your account.
Absolutely! We offer four standard, no-interest, no-credit-check payment plans for you to choose from:
We also offer custom payment plans! If our standard payment plans don’t work for you (for example, you need more time to pay because you are waiting for a tax refund, stimulus payment, or pay day, or clearing your case involves multiple services), call us. We’re flexible!
In summary, if we are not successful in clearing your case, we will promptly refund the fee you pay us in the following situations:
This is only a summary of our Money-Back Guarantee. Additional terms, conditions, and limitations apply. Our Money-Back Guarantee is stated officially and in full within a document we provide along with our Attorney Representation Agreement. Don’t worry, though; we will tell you in advance whether our Money-Back Guarantee applies to you and your case.
Almost always, the process takes between two months and six months. The time might be shorter if your case is simple (for example, one offense for a common crime), recent, and the courts are available. However, the time might be longer if your case clearing process requires multiple steps, your case is over ten years old, the courts are backed up, or your case is extra controversial.
We are a law firm. ClearYourCase.com is a service of The Law Firm Tony Masi PC, which is owned and managed by Anthony M. Masi, a licensed California attorney. Mr. Masi is licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California. Mr. Masi’s state bar number is 305234. He has a spotless disciplinary record with the State Bar. Feel free to look him up on the website of the State Bar of California.
There are many reasons why it does not pay to hire a notary or document preparation service. The most obvious reason is because we are legally allowed to represent you in court, and notaries and document preparation services are not.
Notaries and document preparation services are not allowed to represent clients in court because they are not attorneys (and doing so would be the unauthorized practice of law in California, a misdemeanor). This is very important. Please trust us: You do not want to end up in court arguing against one or more fully trained prosecuting attorneys. If you are not an experienced criminal law attorney like the prosecutors are, it wouldn’t even be a fair fight.
What would you do if you and the prosecutor are standing in front of the judge during your live, in-person hearing and the prosecutor objects to your petition or evidence (which they do regularly if they have any reason at all to do so, no matter how small)? What would you say in response? If the prosecutor makes a request to the court that seems reasonable to you, how would you know whether that request is actually a trap? Would you be surprised to learn that one of the basics in the prosecutors’ playbook is trapping his or her opponents in traps the opponents do not even realize are traps until it is too late? This is why you need an experienced attorney on your side. Your future is too valuable to risk.
Be very careful with anyone who offers legal work who is not an attorney. Attorneys and law firms are regulated by the State Bar of California and are subject to strict education and licensing requirements. Notaries and document preparation services are not. State bar licensing is an important public protection that ensures competent work by the attorney and law firm. And competence for important legal matters like yours is vital. We have seen many lives ruined by mistakes made by public notaries and document preparers. With us, not only are we competent, qualified, experienced attorneys, we also have a big $750,000 attorney malpractice insurance policy in effect for your protection.
No. First of all, the public defender might decline to represent you in clearing your case.
But if they represent you, public defenders will almost always charge you for their services. That’s right: the same over-worked lawyers who probably worked on your case the first time around (and lost) will charge you money. Why would you ever want to pay the public defender?
Think about this: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (under the U.S. Department of Justice), in 2013, each public defender on average had an active caseload between 50 cases and 590 cases! Some are DUI cases. Some are robbery cases. Some are murder cases. And each of their up-to-590 cases are almost guaranteed to be higher priority to them than your case. Why? Because the public defender has a constitutional duty to provide assistance of counsel for criminal defenses, not assistance of counsel for clearing the cases of people who are no longer at risk of criminal punishment.
Don’t be prioritized last with the public defender. Be prioritized first with us. With us, you don’t have to compete for time against someone who might get the death penalty. Clearing cases is all we do. Why not get your money’s worth and pay for the best?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! Yes, we want to earn your business. However, if you do not hire us, it is important that you hire another licensed attorney or law firm and not try clearing your case on your own (or hiring a document preparation service or notary).
Why? Because a bad attempt to clear your case might forever prevent you from clearing your case! It might also hurt other cases you have (especially if you have a pending immigration case or civil case)! Be aware that if you write the wrong information on paperwork, or say the wrong things to the court or the prosecutor, you may be permanently locked into those wrong positions. And those positions might be fatal for your case. We have seen this happen with many potential clients.
The biggest problem we see is that, since you do not have experience clearing cases, you would not know whether you are saying or doing the wrong thing until you are locked in and it is too late to change your position. And believe us when we tell you: prosecutors intentionally try to lock people in to bad positions, and they keep written record of those bad positions.
Clearing your case is serious and can seriously affect your ability to work, get licensed, go to school, and more. It is not a casual situation where you should say, “I’ll try it myself, and if I can’t do it, I’ll just hire an attorney then.” We would be honored to clear your case. However, if you do not hire us, do yourself a favor and hire another experienced lawyer or law firm.
The victim has the right to participate in your case no matter what its stage, including after conviction. However, victims almost never participate unless you want them to.
If your case involves a victim, and you have a good relationship with the victim, a positive word from the victim about you is extremely helpful. The positive word can be in the form of a signed declaration (which we would file with the court). It can also be in the form of the victim appearing in court to personally address the judge. Either way, positivity about you from the victim significantly increases your odds that the court will agree to clear your case.
There are some situations, though, where you would rather not see, interact with, or disturb the victim. We understand this. Here is what we can tell you: Under the Victims’ Bill of Rights Act of 2008 (commonly known as Marsy’s Law or Proposition 9), your case’s victim has the legal right to be heard at your court proceeding. However, whether the victim will want to be heard is a different question. In our experience, most victims do not trouble themselves by participating in unnecessary legal proceedings long after the conviction. In fact, almost none of them do.
That said, we have had a few cases where the victim of a sex offense exercised her rights under the Victims’ Bill of Rights Act of 2008 and opposed our client in court. Please understand that, although it is extremely rare, if this happens to you, it would become very unlikely that the judge would clear your case. California superior court judges are elected government officials just like mayors and members of the city counsel, and judges are required to be re-elected at some point if the judge wants to remain a judge. Keep in mind that it is not politically popular for a judge to clear the case of a sex offender over the strong objection of the victim.
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³ “Pattern” is a specially defined term that means “two or more convictions, or five or more arrests, for separate offenses occurring on separate occasions within three years from at least one of the other convictions or arrests.” Cal. Penal Code § 851.91(c)(2)(A)(ii). If the arrest you want to seal is part of a pattern of domestic violence, child abuse, or elder abuse arrests or convictions, we might still be able to seal your arrest record! However, we do not offer our Money-Back Guarantee.
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The whole process usually takes 2-6 months and usually involves the following steps:
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Once we are hired, we will send you our client onboarding form. This form will ask you questions about yourself and the cases you would like to clear. When you finish the form, send it back to us along with any case-related paperwork you have. Don't worry if you do not know the answers to the form's questions or can't find documents. We're here to help!
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Next, we will work together with you to find the documents that we believe would be helpful for us to clear your case. Sometimes, we don't need any documents other than what we can find online. Other times, we might need a letter of recommendation, a probation report, a court file, or a background check. We will work with you to obtain everything you need.
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We will gather all the information we have related to your case and draft the petition that gives you the highest possible chance of success.
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Before your petition is filed, our managing attorney, Anthony M. Masi, will review your entire file and the petition itself. With his vast experience in clearing cases, he will personally make sure your legal position is the best it can be under the circumstances.
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Once Mr. Masi approves and signs your petition, we will file it in the appropriate courthouse. We will also serve the prosecutor, law enforcement (when necessary), and anyone else who is required to receive the papers.
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After your petition is filed, the court might schedule one or more hearings. These are court appearances where your petition will be discussed. We will attend these hearings for you, at no extra charge. You are almost never required to attend your hearing, but you can attend if you would like. When your hearing ends, we will let you know what happened and if your case has been cleared.
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If your case has been cleared, the court will mail us a certified copy of the order that says so. As soon as we receive it, we will send it to you, at no extra charge.
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Thirty days after your case has been cleared, we will verify that your public record really is cleared. If it is not, we will take steps to make sure your case is cleared once and for all, at no extra charge.
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