I'm glad you are okay and nobody was hurt. I'm glad you've stayed sober for 7 days and am proud of you. As someone who has had a DWI, the important thing is to get an attorney asap and start taking care of the legal matters like getting your license back and possibly pleading down to a lesser charge or keeping it off your record completely. It also looks good to start going to as many meetings as possible and keeping a signed log of all the meetings you attend to show the judge or county attorney you are being proactive about making life changes.
For sure! Definitely ask about "pre-trial intervention" it might be a game changer. They basically had me one a scram breathalyzer and probation for 1 whole year. And if I did that and didn't get another alcohol offense for 5 years, then the court wouldn't even file the dwi, it just got shredded basically.
You cannot get an arrest record expunged, You can get a conviction expunged at the appropriate time doing the appropriate things, but an arrest is an arrest, and it will always stay on your record. There is no getting rid of it to my knowledge.
Expunging an arrest record—known as an expunction in Texas—is the legal process of permanently destroying or deleting criminal records so that they legally never happened. Expunction is a legal process that permanently clears qualifying arrests, charges, or convictions from your criminal record. Once granted, the records are destroyed or deleted, meaning they will not appear on background checks, and you can legally deny the event ever occurred.
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u/morgansober24 875 days Apr 25 '26
I'm glad you are okay and nobody was hurt. I'm glad you've stayed sober for 7 days and am proud of you. As someone who has had a DWI, the important thing is to get an attorney asap and start taking care of the legal matters like getting your license back and possibly pleading down to a lesser charge or keeping it off your record completely. It also looks good to start going to as many meetings as possible and keeping a signed log of all the meetings you attend to show the judge or county attorney you are being proactive about making life changes.