Do you have a pending misdemeanor case in Williamson County, Texas? If you have never been in trouble with the law before, you may be able to avoid a conviction, avoid any additional jail time, and avoid a possible probation term of 12 to 24 months for a Williamson County misdemeanor offense IF you participate in a special program called Pre-Trial Intervention that is run by our County Attorney's office. If you successfully finish this program, you can later apply to completely remove the arrest record from your criminal history. If the arrest is removed from your criminal history, then you can legally deny that you were ever arrested for this offense.
The Williamson County Attorney's Office has a Pre-Trial Intervention program that is designed for first time misdemeanor offenders. You must hire an attorney to apply for this six monthprogram. If you think you might be interested in this program, you should call Ken Crain at (512) 869-0131 to discuss it. The great thing about this program is that if you apply for the program, get accepted into the program and then successfully finish the program, then the charges are dismissed and you will not end up with a conviction for the offense you were originally charged with.
To qualify for the program, you cannot have any prior juvenile, misdemeanor, or felony offenses in Williamson County or elsewhere. (They do not care about minor class C misdemeanor traffic offenses like speeding or running a stop sign.) Your pending charges cannot involve any alleged theft from an employer or any kind of misdemeanor sexual offense. Weapons offenses are not eligible for the program. To apply for the program, you have to hire an attorney and you must complete the program application and submit it to the Williamson County Attorney's office within 90 days of the date of your arrest. The sooner you hire an attorney, the sooner your attorney can advise you if this program would be a good one for you.
A word to the wise: once you complete an application and receive tentative approval to enter the program, you will be scheduled to meet with the program manager for an interview. You will be required to provide a urine sample and it will be drug tested at the beginning of this interview. All program applicants are drug tested, even if the crime you are charged with does not involve drugs. If you fail the drug test, you will not be accepted into the program.
If you are accepted into the program, you and your attorney will meet with the County Attorney's office to sign a Pre-Trial Intervention contract. You will have to pay a $360 program fee by money order at this meeting, sign a contract, do eight hours of community service monthly until you complete forty hours total, stay out of trouble with the law for six months, and submit to random drug testing during the program. If you are charged with a DWI, you will also be required to have an ignition interlock device installed on your car that will require you to take a breath test before your car will even start.
Most people who are admitted into this program are successful in completing it. However, you need to be aware that the contract you sign when you start the program states that you waive your right to a trial (by jury or by judge) in the event that you fail to complete the program and that you agree to enter a plea of no contest to the original charge. The contract will state what the agreed plea bargain would be if you fail to complete the Pre-Trial Intervention Program. In the event that you fail to complete the program, the punishment is usually comparable to what you would have received if you had bypassed the program altogether and entered a no contest plea to start with.
If you successfully finish the Pre-Trial Intervention Program in Williamson County, you can even apply to get the arrest expunged so that you can legally deny that the arrest ever happened. (Normally, to expunge a misdemeanor you have to wait until two years have passed since the date of the original offense. However, if you successfully finish a pre-trial intervention, you can start the expunction process as soon as the pre-trial intervention program has been completed.) Your criminal history will still be clean if you get the arrest expunged. (Since the expunction process is a separate legal proceeding, legal fees and filing fees to apply for an expunction are not included in my fee to apply for the Pre-Trial Intervention Program in Williamson County.)
Please call Ken Crain at (512) 869-0131 for additional information about the Pre-Trial Intervention Program in Williamson County.
Do you have a pending misdemeanor case in Williamson County, Texas? If you have never been in trouble with the law before, you may be able to avoid a conviction, avoid any additional jail time, and avoid a possible probation term of 12 to 24 months for a Williamson County misdemeanor offense IF you participate in a special program called Pre-Trial Intervention that is run by our County Attorney's office. If you successfully finish this program, you can later apply to completely remove the arrest record from your criminal history. If the arrest is removed from your criminal history, then you can legally deny that you were ever arrested for this offense.
To qualify for the program, you cannot have any prior juvenile, misdemeanor, or felony offenses in Williamson County or elsewhere. (They do not care about minor class C misdemeanor traffic offenses like speeding or running a stop sign.) Your pending charges cannot involve any alleged theft from an employer or any kind of misdemeanor sexual offense. Weapons offenses are not eligible for the program. To apply for the program, you have to hire an attorney and you must complete the program application and submit it to the Williamson County Attorney's office within 90 days of the date of your arrest. The sooner you hire an attorney, the sooner your attorney can advise you if this program would be a good one for you.
A word to the wise: once you complete an application and receive tentative approval to enter the program, you will be scheduled to meet with the program manager for an interview. You will be required to provide a urine sample and it will be drug tested at the beginning of this interview. All program applicants are drug tested, even if the crime you are charged with does not involve drugs. If you fail the drug test, you will not be accepted into the program. 
If you successfully finish the Pre-Trial Intervention Program in Williamson County, you can even apply to get the arrest expunged so that you can legally deny that the arrest ever happened. (Normally, to expunge a misdemeanor you have to wait until two years have passed since the date of the original offense. However, if you successfully finish a pre-trial intervention, you can start the expunction process as soon as the pre-trial intervention program has been completed.) Your criminal history will still be clean if you get the arrest expunged. (Since the expunction process is a separate legal proceeding, legal fees and filing fees to apply for an expunction are not included in my fee to apply for the Pre-Trial Intervention Program in Williamson County.)
