parisite wrote:To make a long story short guys they also got me for Public Intoxication but that charge was dropped. They kept the more serious charge of Unlawful Carry of a Weapon.
I was on my way back home from an out of town football game and pulled over in this closed shopping center parking lot to catch a nap about 11:30pm.....not bothering a soul. I had two margaritas 4-5 hours before the game at a restaurant.

And you had a handgun on you, or in your glove box, inside your vehicle?
Sorry to tell you man, but it's not UCH-CHL Holder, if you're carrying under MPA, because you have to be carrying under the authority of CHL in order to get nicked with that.
PC §46.035. UNLAWFUL CARRYING OF HANDGUN BY LICENSE
HOLDER.
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(d) A license holder commits an offense if, while intoxicated, the
license holder carries a handgun under the authority of Subchapter H,
Chapter 411, Government Code, regardless of whether the handgun is
concealed.
CHL is an exemption to 46.02, but you don't need that exemption when you're carrying in a motor vehicle, Therefore, you were not carrying under the authority of CHL.
There is no intoxication clause under generic 46.02 UCW, and I don't know what else they could have charged you with under that, since Carrying in your vehicle is an exception to all of 46.02.
You should not have pled out IMO. They had no case.
This is why you need to have a lawyer that knows CHL law.
IANAL, My opinion only.