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Hi, I'm a 22 year old female who goes to a community college in Texas. I have been going to school since I was 19 (well for nursing). Its taken me a while just to get all my basics done and prereqs but I will finally be able to apply to nursing school next semester 2015. My husband keeps telling me that I need to make sure that I'm not waisting my time with school but I've always blown him off because I don't want to accept the fact that I might have wasted my time. 5 years ago when I was 17 years old, June 2009 my family was having a get together in celebration of me going to join the army. There was alcohol involved and let me just say things got out of hand. My brother got into an altercation with my moms "then boyfriend". And I got in the middle trying to stop the fight. I tried grabbing my moms boyfriend off my brother because my brothers arm had dislocated out of place. His arm tended to dislocate easily due to football injuries in highschool. He was supposed to have surgery but never did. Anyways my moms boyfriend called the cops. When they got there, my mom and her boyfriend, clearly intoxicated were talking to the cops. They didn't even give me a chance to talk before they put me in handcuffs and arrested me. I was so upset, I was screaming and telling them to take the handcuffs off of me. I was telling my mom to tell them what happened. I went to jail and they charged me with assault on a family member (moms boyfriend), terroristic threat(supposedly my moms boyfriend told them I threatened to harm him), resisting arrest. The next day after I talked to my mom (she was sober) and she apologized. She told me that she had called the DA and told them she wanted to drop those charges. They told her there was nothing they could do since the state had already picked them up. She bailed me out and when my court date came around, they dismissed the assault, and terroristic threat but left the resisting arrest charge on me. From what I have heard all of those charges will appear in a background check no matter what. At this point, Im just devastated. I have put sweat, blood and tears into my studying. School has became my life. Does anybody know the steps in what I can do? to get my name cleared? or what? I have heard of expunging the charges but, I've also heard they can still access that too? so whats the point? Im so confused. Meanwhile, my brother didn't get no charges. He ended up going to the hospital for his dislocated shoulder and they released him right after instead of taking him to jail! seriously! BTW they were all misdemeanors, not sure what Class(A,B,C) though. Please help, anybody who has knowledge in criminal backgrounds in the nursing field. Sorry so long! Thanx for reading. Oh and no, I haven't been in any kind of trouble since that day, because I'm a good girl. I don't break the laws. Unfortunately June 2009, according to bell county I did. Other than that my record is clean.