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If that was your sole felony, you have completed your time and supervision, paid all costs and restitution then expunging your record at this point should be possible.

No. The whole point of being undercover, whether in a Internet sting or a drug deal, is to fool people so that they go through with their intent to commit a crime. A chat room is a place on the Internet where people with common interests can sign on to communicate in real time. Generally, when users enter the room, there is a list of other persons (probably using phony names) also signed into the chat room site. To \"chat,\" users type a message which can be seen almost immediately by everyone \"present\" in the chat room. Others, in turn, may respond.   In an attempt to catch adults who seek out underage individuals for sexual purposes, many police departments have officers working undercover in chat rooms where they pretend to be underage girls or boys willing to have sex with adults. Asking someone in a chat room whether he or she is a police officer is pointless. If they are, they will not admit it. Nor do they have to. The whole point of going undercover is to assume a disguise. In doing so, police are allowed to lie, even when directly asked the question. Entrapment only applies as a defense if the undercover officer gave the defendant the idea to commit the crime and persuaded him or her to commit it. If the defendant is ready and willing to commit the crime before the undercover officer first speaks with him, and the officer merely provides an opportunity to commit the crime, that is not entrapment. Unless you can establish that the officer used threats, coercive tactics, harassment, promises of reward, or pleas based on need, sympathy or friendship to get you to commit the crime, it is unlikely that his lying about being an officer will be a defense.

This is a bit too fact intensive for a simple answer. Reading between the lines, if drinking was a violation of your parole, you can be violated for doing so whether you testify or not. You have rights not to incriminate yourself. Seek counsel with the details.