At its September 10, 2013 meeting, the Louisiana Auctioneer's Licensing Board (LALB) discusses amending its renewal license application to provide for deferred adjudication (a program in some states, Texas in particular, by which a first-time offender pleads guilty to a felony; however, he is not actually JUDGED guilty by a Judge. Accordingly, he is essentially placed on probation and, upon successfully completing the probation period, the case is "dismissed." Pleading guilty under deferred adjudication is NOT considered a conviction under a state like Texas' law. A criminal background check will show the arrest for the charge, will show the Deferred Adjudication, but it will not show a conviction. In a nutshell, Deferred Adjudication is probation WITHOUT a conviction, while straight probation is probation WITH a conviction. The change in the application being proposed is to force disclosure of felony crimes even if a guilty plea was entered under any state's Deferred Adjudication program.
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