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Also Heard at the Courthouse

Mark Bennett | July 1, 2008

I’ve had many potential clients tell me that they had taken deferred adjudication probation because their lawyers (and, in some cases, judges) had told them that deferred adjudication would not appear on their records. I’ve long ascribed this to miscommunication — to criminal defense lawyers telling the literal but misleading truth about deferred adjudication (that [...]