Art. 55A.151 CONVICTION OR POTENTIAL PROSECUTION ARISING FROM SAME CRIMINAL EPISODE

If you were arrested for more than one crime that happened during the same criminal episode, and you were found not guilty of one of those charges, you might still not be able to clear that arrest record. This rule says a court cannot wipe out (expunge) the records from an arrest if you were acquitted of that specific charge, but you were convicted of another charge from that same episode, or you can still be prosecuted for another charge from it.

In simple terms, being found not guilty of one charge does not automatically let you clean up your record if other charges from the same event are still active or resulted in a conviction. The law looks at the whole criminal episode together, not just the one charge you beat. So if several charges came out of a single situation, you may need to resolve all of them favorably before you can ask a court to expunge any of the arrest records tied to that episode.