My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Texas
Hello, I'm new to this forum so I'm not quite sure if I'm posting in the right thread. I recently got in trouble with the law for drug procession – at least that's what my citation says. So here's what happened: I was with my friends (it was a guy and a girl and they are a couple of months younger than me. I'm 17, they're 16...If that matters.) and we had just finished smoking weed in the car at 1 in the morning while we were parked in a neighborhood, when a cop pulled over. I obviously had to put down the window when he came which gave it away that we were smoking due to the smell. He made us all get out of the car and padded us down. He then checked the car and found my grinder and piece but luckily we basically had no weed left over. We had only had less than .1 grams (probably even less) of weed in the grinder and nothing on the piece. The officer asked me if I had had more to which I said that all that's there is all there is, which I don't know if it was right or not, I just said that because I know that "everything that you say can and will be used against you" so I didn't want to admit to having had more weed before we got pulled over. The officer didn't really ask much other than who the stuff belonged too which I admitted to it belonging to me. He didn't ask much more, not even if we were high or if we had been smoking. I got a class C citation for drug procession and have court next month. I have a couple of questions:
- Will this stay in my permanent record even after I turn 18 and if yes, is there something I can do to like expunge it?
- What should I do when I go to court? Should I plead guilty? What can I do to lower my punishment?
I don't know if this matters but I don't have any criminal history.
Thank you.

