Okay, Christian, if the case was never filed and there was no court proceeding (which appears to be the case, based on what you said here), then you can answer the question about pretrial diversion "no".

Diversion under PC 1001 would have required you to go to court, plead not guilty, be placed in diversion by the court and ordered to fulfill a number of obligations (including, most likely, counselling and community service). And then, you would have been required to submit proof to the court before your case was dismissed.

It sounds as if what happened in your case was that you were detained, but charges were not filed (that's the reason for the "detention" letter from LAPD). A detention is not considered an arrest. Since no charges were ever filed, this would not even be considered a "dismissal", there being no charges to dismiss.

Therefore, from what you have said, it appears that you can truthfully say you have never been in a pretrial diversion program.

I noticed that you were in Colorado, Christian, and no that doesn't change anything. The language of the question itself determines how you have to answer it. If you did not do PC 1001 diversion in California, then you can answer that question "no".

Detention not considered an arrest, by the way, would not be characterized as a pretrial diversion program under Colorado law, either, so you are okay saying "no" regardless of which law they want to apply.

You're welcome, Christian, I'm happy to have been able to help.

Were you actually booked at the time of the arrest or simply cited and released? If the latter, your fingerprints would not be on record at LAPD.

How you might want to respond to a follow up question such as you have posed may depend on exactly what the detainment letter says. There is no way to send the letter to me; however, if you can convert the pdf into one of the formats which can be posted here, you could do that (you should black out any personal identity information before converting the file). There are several ways you can make a pdf into a JPEG, GIF or PNG, which are the formats that can be posted here.

You should also be able to open the pdf in Adobe Reader, then block and copy the text you want to post, then paste it here.

Failing either of the foregoing, you could simply type the pertinent text into your question box.

Christian,

I appreciate the confidence expressed in your desire to retain me. However, the JA Expert Agreement under which we provide services here prohibits us from having off-site contact with JA customers.

You can find an attorney to represent you by contacting your local county bar association in Colorado. You can find a California lawyer to represent you by contacting the LA county bar association lawyer referral service through their webpage at:

http://www.smartlaw.org/

Or through the California State Bar attorney search page at:

http://www.calbar.ca.gov/state/calbar/calbar_generic.jsp?cid=10114

Thanks again for asking your question here on JustAnswer and good luck resolving this issue.