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Kenneth S. Hines
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Kenneth S. Hines is the managing attorney at the Law Office of David D. White, PLLC, and leads the firm's expungement and nondisclosure practice. He has been licensed in Texas since 2008.
Expungement eligibility is not one rule applied evenly across Texas. What a court will grant, and what the State will agree to, differs county to county. Kenneth researches the original disposition in every case and gives an honest and accurate assessment of what is actually available in the county where the charge was filed, before anything is filed.
Texas has two remedies and they are not interchangeable. An expunction, the statutory term under Chapter 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, destroys the record. An order of nondisclosure seals it from public view while leaving it visible to law enforcement and to certain licensing agencies. Which one is on the table depends on how the case ended and how much time has passed.
Alongside that work Kenneth handles the full criminal docket: DWI, drug charges, family violence, sex offenses and white collar matters in Travis, Williamson and the surrounding Central Texas counties.
Before he moved to trial-level defense, Kenneth served as General Counsel to the Texas Senate Jurisprudence Committee.
A native of Wichita Falls, Kenneth graduated from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in 2004 and earned his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in 2008.
Every case is fact-specific. Past results do not predict outcomes in any future matter.
Expungement eligibility is not the same in every Texas county. I read the original disposition first and tell you which remedy is actually available, an expungement or a nondisclosure, before anything gets filed.
I handle the full criminal docket in Travis, Williamson and the surrounding Central Texas counties: DWI, drug charges, family violence, sex offenses and white collar matters. When a case ends in a way that allows it, I handle the expungement or nondisclosure myself.
A DWI arrest starts two cases, not one: the criminal charge and the license suspension. The license case has its own deadline that runs whether or not you have hired anyone yet. I handle both, and the record question afterward.
An affirmative finding of family violence is not something you can clear from your record later. It attaches to the disposition itself, which is why the outcome you agree to today decides what your record looks like for good.
Whether a drug case can be cleared later depends entirely on how it ends now. A dismissal, a diversion and a deferred adjudication produce three different records, and I plan for that from the first setting.
Registration consequences are decided by the offense of conviction, not by the sentence. Before any plea discussion I want to know exactly what each option would require of you for the rest of your life.
I read the financial records before I read the indictment. A business degree and years spent on how Texas statutes get written are useful in cases built on documents, intent, and the difference between a bad decision and a crime.
Practice Areas
6
Practice Areas
Criminal Defense
40%
DUI and DWI
20%
Domestic Violence
10%
Drug Crime
10%
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Licenses
Licensed in Texas for 17 years
State: Texas
Acquired: 2008
No misconduct found
Location
Law Office of David D. White, PLLC
(888) 282-6506
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608 West 12th Street, Suite B, Austin, TX, 78701
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706 S Rock St, Georgetown, TX, 78626
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Experience
Education
2008
South Texas College of Law Houston
Doctor of Jurisprudence/Juris Doctor (J.D.)