How screwed am I?
 

I have a great job opportunity. It's a fairly easy job, and I'll be licensed to sell insurance and deal with finances. I found out that a background check will be ran on me, and I assume it'll be fairly extensive.

I've been charged with a federal crime and COULD have to do 5-10. It wasn't a violent crime or a sex crime, and didn't have anything to do with stealing money. What are the chances I'll get the job?

Keep in mind... I've only been CHARGED (i don't know if that matters)

Re: How screwed am I?
 

Why weren't you convicted?

Charges dropped? or were you aquitted?

Re: How screwed am I?
 

We need to know what the crime is.

Re: How screwed am I?
 

You've "been charged." Shall we assume you did it? Will you be convicted or don't you know yet?

Anyways, yes they will find out, and you're going ot have some explaining to do. I think it's very unlikely that you'll get this job.

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If you've only been charged and haven't been convicted, I'm pretty sure that your employer has no right to find out about charges brought against you without a conviction (that whole pesky little "innocent until proven guilty" thing).

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We need to know what the crime is.

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This isn't nearly as important as the full status of the proceedings.

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If you've only been charged and haven't been convicted, I'm pretty sure that your employer has no right to find out about charges brought against you without a conviction (that whole pesky little "innocent until proven guilty" thing).

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This doesn't sound true at all.

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If you've only been charged and haven't been convicted, I'm pretty sure that your employer has no right to find out about charges brought against you without a conviction (that whole pesky little "innocent until proven guilty" thing).

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This doesn't sound true at all.

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What? People get wrongly charged with crimes all the time. Those charges are dropped and they move on and since they haven't been convicted of the crime it means that in the eyes of the law they didn't do it and I don't see why an employer would have any right to that information (especially when it isn't even admissable in a court of law).

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Employers are only allowed to ask if you were convicted of a crime. They are not permitted to ask if you were ever arrested or charged with a crime.