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“Deferred Adjudication will be referred to as “DA” throughout this Web site”
29 April 2010
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You have reached the Texas Association for Justice and Legal Reform. We are dedicated to educating the of people in Texas about Deferred Adjudication, what it is; how it affects people; and what can be done to change it.
It is our intent to unify the people of Texas and bring to light the concerns of those with deferred adjudication, and address the needs of those suffering from the negative implications of having to live with the consequences of deferred adjudication (hereafter referred to simply as "DA").
Our ultimate goal, of course, is to make our state/county/city governments more responsive to the needs of its citizens, especially those who have legal disabilities, meaning those who have been arrested, faced prosecution, and were given deferred adjudication in a criminal court of law. We hope to accomplish this, of course, by changing the current Texas expunction laws so that anyone who has ever received DA can one day look forward to having his/her criminal record expunged and thus go on to live a normal life after having had his/her lost civil rights and privacy protections restored.
Current state law as written in TEXAS CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Sections 55.01 and 55.02 currently prohibits ANYONE who was ever arrested and taken DA for anything other than a Class C Misdemeanor from EVER being allowed to expunge their criminal record. Ever!!! The only way to make this change possible is through a massive, sustained effort and bring this issue to the very forefront of hot issues we want our elected state legislators to revisit and fix.
Having said this, we are looking for, and expecting mass participation from our many web site visitors and volunteers to work with us and our elected state officials to make these badly needed changes in the law come about.