Disorderly Conduct

[gvbragg]

What is the name of your state? Texas
My son is 18 and has never been in trouble. His girlfriend was receiving harrassing phone calls from an ex-boyfriend. The ex told her that her current boyfriend could see him @ Rosa's if he had a problem with it. My son went over to tell the boy to leave her alone. When my son showed up, the boy shoved him & swung at him. It erupted into a fight. Both of the boys were arrested for disorderly conduct. My son has to phone a judge today to find out his punishment. Is there anyway to have this removed from his record? Is there anything we need to tell the judge to have this possibly happen? The sheriff dept told us to tell the girlfriend to call the judge and have a protective order issued against the boy. I'm fortunate that my son is not in trouble much but not sure where to begin on this matter. I appreciate any advice!

[rmet4nzkx]

She should get a restraining order against her former BF if she is being harassed. Your son needs to learn appropriate behavior, in this case, reporting the harasment to law enforcement was the appropriate action, not to go over and confront the exboyfriend. Your son needs to learn comon sense and to control his hormones, not to have his parent try to get his actions forgiven. He will have to face the judge and take his punishment. Perhaps he will learn. You can pay a lot of money to a criminal defense attorney to negotiate some alternate form of punishment or diversion program, although your son might be able to do that as well.

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Upon reviewing your previous posts, you claim your 17 yo son is a good child, yet you were wanting to throw the book at another person and then made prejudicial remarks, remember children learn by your example.
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[gvbragg]

To tell you the truth, my son has learned a lot from this experience and is dealing with the matter himself. As difficult as it is for me to stay out of it, I am. My sister had mentioned something called "deferred adjudication", which she understood to mean that after a certain amount of time with nothing on his record, this would come off. Could that apply and if so, is that what happens? Thanks again.

[rmet4nzkx]

Deferred adjudicaiton is a diversion program, one of the things I mentioned. This involves, pleading guilty to a charge and being on probaiton, classes, community service and after doing all than and staying out of trouble the charge is dropped, it may but not always stay in the record and your son will still have to answer questions about his record honestly.

[gvbragg]

Gotcha! Thanks again for the info.