There is the good news and then the bad news. I went to the courthouse and the clerk was super helpful. This problem is likely to be okay. He offered to print out my whole record. Something else came up that surprised me and is really a problem. I have a DUI that goes back to 1997. I figured that that is old enough and I don't have a substance issue so not really a problem. But turns out I was also during that convicted of battery on an officer. I know the officer alleged that, but I thought the judge threw it out. Turns out he may have made a comment like that in court but I plead no contest to the whole thing, I guess to avoid trial? Who knows…it was a very difficult time in my life and long ago.

Battery on anybody but on a police officer? That is not going to be easy to deal with. I might very well be turned away, even though it was so long ago and what happened was I just got up to get some water and the cop put her hands all over me and I struggled to get away. She had a prior back problem and was trying to get workman's comp which the judge talked about and ridiculed so I guess that's why I thought he dismissed the actual charges. Plus I didn't serve any jail time or do community service. I had voluntarily hospitalized myself and the judge praised me for taking action. The record shows that he counted that as "time served" which I didn't realize. This is a mess. Why does this stuff happen when your therapist is away?