Spent five days in a county jail during my sophomore year of college.
Really? That is surprising to hear. Are you willing to share why?
It's a long story, bu
Yeah, t I'll give you the super duper abridged version. As I said in another thread: it's public info anyway.
Basically: my then-boyfriend and I got into a fight, things got out of hand, we both ended up getting arrested and charged with a DVC.
DVC I assume is the Texas equivalent of some sort of domestic violence charged? Ugh. I'm so sorry that happened. Since it was a dual filing and The state could not rely on either one of you to be able to testify against the other as you could both just plead the 5th, I'm hoping and assuming that things just wound up getting dismissed?
Seriously though, P M me if you need a referral to a Texas attorney about trying to get record of that arrest sealed, especially since you've got your medical boards coming up in the not too distant future. I've got contacts and I'm sure can find someone.
Oh, don't be sorry! There were bad decisions made all around, but I ultimately shouldn't have lost my temper like I did.
And you guessed it: it was one of those situations where both of us had visible marks and each party was blaming the other. So the responding officers had no choice but to take both of us in.
You'd think I was distraught at the prospect of potentially losing my future career aspirations, but I was more pissed off at my then-boyfriend than anything. The exact words of the officer who actually took me in: "honey, I can feel the angry heat coming off your body right now. Please take a deep breath."
The charges were ultimately dismissed, but I still have an arrest record. I've talked to a few attorneys about how that might impact my medical boards and from what I was told, they won't be too much of a hindrance considering (1) my academic stats and (2) this was a lone blip on my record.
But I so greatly appreciate you, Badger!
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