Texas Department of Public Safety v. James Patrick Steele

I respectfully dissent. Actually I concur where the majority states: . we cannot say that he judicially admitted to having a final conviction on the charge he sought to expunge.” This holding, in essence, affirms the case. I say this because the issue presented for review is:

Whether it is an abuse of discretion for a court to grant a petition for ex-punction when it was apparent from the record that the petitioner made a judicial admission in the petition for expunction that a plea of nolo contendré [sic] to a class B misdemeanor was made by the petitioner on the criminal charge that the…