Legal Question in Criminal Law in New Jersey

convicted or dismissed

The charges were (as you mention) dismissed. Therefore you were not convicted. Accordingly, when the application asks whether you were ever convicted, the answer is "No."

On the other hand, if you are asked whether you have ever been arrrested, the answer would still be yes. If you were to get an expungement, you could then legally answer "No" even to the question of whether you were ever arrested. For more information concerning expungements, check out http://www.NJExpungements.com.

Good luck!

Allan Marain

http://www.NJExpungements.com

Re: convicted or dismissed

If this is the only charge you ever had against you for a criminal matter then you can answer NO if the question is "were you ever CONVICTED of a crime".

Re: convicted or dismissed

The previous answer is right on.

You may also want to consider an application for expungement of the arrest which would allow you to answer "no" to an arrest question (at least in New Jersey).