My question involves criminal law for the state of: Texas
Hello,
I have two MIPs that I need expunged. They were both dismissed after deferral, and qualify for expungement. In Texas under TABC, you can have one MIP expunged for a fee of $30 dollars if you did not have another alcohol related offense by the time you turned 21. I do not qualify for this because I got two. Therefore, I would need to expunge them with the help of an attorney. However, I was thinking what if I hired an attorney to expunge one, and when all record of that is gone go back and expunge the other under the TABC provision? I have read that the expungement process takes at most six months to complete, but once all record of it is clear how will they know that I ever got another MIP, and what repercussions would there be of them finding out if there was a record that maybe didn't get deleted? Please note that they are in separate counties so it would require separate filing fees if I did handle both with an attorney. That would be $300-500 depending on the county. That is why it would be more cost efficient to do the other one under TABC. Thanks.

