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1. I don't have any of the court papers from back then. Can I, as the person involved, still get copies of the proceedings? If so, what agency should I contact? The arresting agency or the courts?
You should be able to get the records from the court. It may be tricky, as HYTA cases should be kept under seal and your name mae be suppressed in their computer system.
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2. I explained this all to an investigator from the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards, who assured me that my HYTA probation did not serve as a blanket disqualifier for law enforcement employment. But does anyone here know if it is something that, realisticaly, is going to keep me out of the profession? (It is my only arrest or involvment with police aside from normal traffic violations).
Without knowing the full facts of the offense, it's hard to say how much of an impact it will have. But 17 years ago, unless you were in a County which followed unorthodox practice (such as Washtenaw), HTYA didn't even require a guilty plea. (Now you plead guilty, but if you successfully complete probation a conviction is not entered. Back then if you violated your probation they went back to the plea stage, and you could still take the case to trial.)
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3. Do I have the ability to use a lawyer to have the record completely expunged, so that even law enforcement agencies have no record of it?
No.