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Originally Posted by KDCat
If OP doesn't want to pay a lawyer, she can go to the court house and look it up in the computer.
If OP did community service as part of a sentence, she had to plead guilty. She either got a conviction or was given supervision or some other kind of diversion. A supervision in my jurisdiction results in no conviction being entered if she did her community service and obeyed the other conditions of her suspended sentence. At the end of the supervision term, the file is closed with no conviction being entered.
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Well YMMV from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but she may not have necessarily had to plead guilty to get some sort of diversion. You can get there with a no contest plea, or an Alford plea (the later is probably not going to happen in a simple trespassing case).
And regarding online research.. again, that depends. Again, from state to state, YMMV. Oklahoma will show everything, absolutely everything, in some counties, even the information, complete with the Defendant's name, date of birth and social security number are available as public records, scanned on line and available for viewing anonymously. If the conviction was in municipal court, I only know of one jurisdiction in our whole state which puts any court records online.
But again, YMMV from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and if OP wants to know what is up, lawyers from out of state aren't going to be able to help.
And totally out of my "lane," but if you were a PNM in fraternity rush with a conviction for trespassing, even if it was on OSCN, so long as it was a cool story, no one would care.