Criminal Record and Law School Forum

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Suppose you’ve had a perfect record and are up in your 30s and want to attend law school, as you have some goal of utilizing that degree in a non legal capacity.

Also suppose that while always having a clear record there may be a pending case open based on false allegations you don’t want to deal with now since there isn’t a warrant or open case, while could be charges filed with some court being unserved not knowing your current address. So you want to attend law school and want to assure acceptance, but not interested in sitting for the bar

If you fill out you have no criminal history and get accepted at ucla or southern cal could they background anyway and see an unserved case?

After 1l if you transfer to Berkeley or Stanford would they background check or likely not either? And how do you know? Hoping for a no for both