Well....we got through the day at the Justice of the Peace Courts....Thank goodness we hired an attorney....Thank you to all of you for the great advise.....The attorney got the drug paraphanalia charge dropped completely. The prosecutor did not have the pipe and they had no proof positive that the residue was illegal drugs. He pleaded no contest to MIP of alcohol and alchohol on school grounds, with deferred adjudication after 3 months. . He agreed to 20 hours of community service, un-supervised 3 month probation, 325.00 fine, 6 hour alcohol awareness class.
The attorney had all the agreements worked out the day before and it was pretty streamlined.
The attorneys said something about getting the deferred adjudicaton espunged from his record after the probation period. My understanding is that if someone looked hard enough they can find a deferred adjudication and an espungment would erase that....
The attorney said that my son can honestly say on a job ap that he has not been charged with an offense as the deferred adjudication does not charge him...
The biggee that could have come back to haunt him was the drug paraphanalia charge.....and that is gone
I pray that this will make him think about things from now on....The lawyers explained to him that he got off on a technicality and that he probably would not be that fortunate in the future and to look at this as a real gift to be able to keep his record clean....