The Harris County District Attorney’s Office launched a progressive DWI program on Aug. 1 that steers first-time offenders who plead guilty into treatment and rewards them for completing the program by dismissing their cases, which enables them to seek expungement of their records.
However, three Houston criminal-defense attorneys are skeptical of the program — Direct Intervention Using Voluntary Education Restitution & Treatment (DIVERT) — and say they will advise their clients against it.
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