Drug Charge, First Offense

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Texas

I'm on Deferred PRobation now, and am about to be off in two months and I was wondering if that means that I any hope of being a cop or re-enlisting in the military was out? Or what I would have to do in order to do any of this. It wasnt mine but when I was pulled over nobody claimed it, so my car my charge. And when I had went to court I was told that I was being charged but not convicted and it wouldn't stop me from getting a liscense in anything (I was going to school at the time to be a Court Reporter) and I was military at the time. .

I would worry a bit more about your probation than anything else really. It depends also on what class of drug and the charge itself. For instance, possession of a drug without a prescription is quite different that possesion of a controlled substance. Depending on where the drug was found in the car has influence as to what the DA will do. You can "test the water" by telling the DA that the person whom the drug belongs to is willing to admit it is theirs, or if it is a prescribed drug, that the person whom it is prescribed to will admit they left it in the car and had forgotten it. Basically, if it was found within your proximity and it is your vehicle, they would be less likely to release the case for dismissal. If they run prints on the container, will they find prints of yours? If you are certain that no fingerprints of yours will be pulled off the container but there will be someone elses prints that is in the car at the time, than you can "take it to the box" per se.

To answer your question about becoming a police or peace officer, not likely to happen unless it is a dismissal. Even dismissals can be unfair since some only look at charges. This is where expongement comes in. After a judgement and if circumstances allow after five years or so of being a good ol boy and not getting in trouble, you can have your record exponged by court decision if it affects your career or livelihood. This only applies to first offenses and not repeat offenders unless it is all during one brief period.

DA's usually are quite reasonable people and they know whether or not it should be on your record or not. Not much fools them. If you do get an expongement and get in trouble for the same thing again though, don't expect another walk through the park. There will (most likely) never be another expongement going your way.

Court reporting should not be any problem. In fact you could (after proven time) have the courts recommend that a specific record not be considered as derrogatory due to the given facts and that an expongement is impending for execution on such a date in the future.

This is not a professional opinion. Just going by what I have seen happen to many other people with similar cases. No two are exactly the same.