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Originally Posted by daihashi
With probation you can usually get deferred adjudication (I'm not a lawyer so no one take this as legal advice) at which point once your probation is served it will be dropped off your record. If you do not get deferred then you can usually get your records sealed after your probation has been completed. Something that you cannot do without probation (at least that's how I recall it).
So yes they own you for months at a time; but at the end of it you have a relatively clean record in the eyes of future employers (unless those employers are part of a government agency in which case sealing your records does not help you at all).
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Expungement can proceed after sentencing, although it is most successful after time. That way, you can prove that you are deserving of a clean slate. Except in certain states such as California where expungement does not actually clean the slate, it also requires probation.
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Last edited by GoldenBoy812; Oct-11-2008 at 15:12.
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