Wait, if charges are dismissed is it still on your record?
One of the biggest queries people have after a legal head ache is if charges are dismissed is it still on your record , and the short reply is usually indeed, but there's a little more to it compared to that. It's among those things where the logic of the real world doesn't quite match upward with the logic of the legal system. You'd believe that if a judge or a prosecutor says, "Okay, we're falling this, " the whole thing would just vanish into thin atmosphere like it in no way happened. Unfortunately, the particular government loves a paper trail, and that trail doesn't just evaporate since the case didn't go to trial. ...