expunged in Hogland

I was busted for cultivation in Arkansas in 2004, I was sloppy and had some workers building a structure on my property, I left for work, and evidently one of them jimmy rigged a lock on my porch door and checked out my house. I had over 50 beautiful plants ready to go outdoors growing in my utility room, under lights, all about 10 inches tall and bushed out from topping.

Long story short, this worker was a felon and went to the police with the information. This information evidently helped ease some of his pending charges with the DA's office I heard later. Well, I was busted at my home the next day, I went through hell, lost cars and my computer, and the whole ordeal cost me right at $10,000 when everything was finally tabulated.

I hired an attorney (I had no criminal record at that point) and was able to plea to a deferred five year felony for cultivation of marijuana charge. I have kept my nose clean since, and just recently, the deferred felony charge was expunged and is no longer on the books.

And this is my question: What would happen if I was busted again for cultivation of marijuana? I don't plan to grow indoors again, I could never stomach the possibiity of being a sitting duck with plants in my home. I feel fortunate that I didn't lose my home when I was busted, considering I had over 50 plants, which is when the federal statutes kick in I believe.

But I have a great deal of land available to me to grow outdoors, and I am itching for the opportunity to apply my craft to the outdoors, which I have done countless times in the past couple decades, with varying degrees of sucsess.

My question is from a legal perspective, say I'm busted in a worst case senario setup, say in a 10 plant patch in the middle of nowheresville. My understanding is that you get one deferment for such things like cultivation, if you are lucky to get that. I did, and kept my nose clean.

What are the possibilities if I were to walk into the most dreaded of situations, a group of plants that I've been tending to in the woods, not on my property, but that the police were watching, and I go down once again. I have a feeling it would not be a deferred charge of cultivation of marijuana, but something much tougher, where I could actually do some time. Any ideas on how the DA would treat this new offense if it were to ever transpire? I'll never take chances again like I did before, growing indoors, but I would love to let mother nature do her thing for me in the great outdoors one day in the future, because I miss it greatly.