Getting Criminal Background Record

[vivarantthang]

What is the name of your state? NY

When you represent yourself in court as a plaintiff, how do you go about getting to defendant's criminal background record to prove that the individual has a volent criminal past?

 

[CdwJava]

What is the name of your state? NY

When you represent yourself in court as a plaintiff, how do you go about getting to defendant's criminal background record?

Per the New York state Office of Criminal Justice Services, you cannot generally obtain a criminal history on another person. If you are a plaintiff in a civil matter, you can ask the judge for the information and if he thinks it is relevant to the civil matter at hand he can probably order it produced. However, I believe that it is the exception and NOT the rule that a criminal offender record will be produced at a civil proceeding.

If his criminal history is somehow at issue, then I would suggest obtaining court documents concerning those criminal proceedings as they tend to be public records available for a fee in many cases.

- Carl

 

[seniorjudge]

Per the New York state Office of Criminal Justice Services, you cannot generally obtain a criminal history on another person. If you are a plaintiff in a civil matter, you can ask the judge for the information and if he thinks it is relevant to the civil matter at hand he can probably order it produced. However, I believe that it is the exception and NOT the rule that a criminal offender record will be produced at a civil proceeding.

If his criminal history is somehow at issue, then I would suggest obtaining court documents concerning those criminal proceedings as they tend to be public records available for a fee in many cases.

- Carl

I agree.

I would also like to know from the poster what it is she wants to use this info for?