No Deferred for DWI's...and That's a Good Thing

House Bill 189 the Deferred Adjudication bill applicable to DWI's did not pass!  Although the bill made it through the house, amendments to the bill made it unrecognizable, and the Senate basically never paid it much attention.  This is a good thing.  It was deferred probation by title only, not substantively.  As proposed, it would have required mandatory ignition interlock (blow and go machines) and the accused's record, like in family violence cases, could never be sealed, making the "deferred" useless.