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To: Pure Country
I wish you luck.

My daughter got into a nasty situation moving from New York to Florida. She failed to return her car tags to NY upon getting new Florida plates. NY suspended her driver's license, but what did she care (she was young and foolish)...she already had a new Florida driver's license.

At the time she was living in the boondocks near the Florida/Alabama border. Other than her infant son she had no family or friends nearby. Her husband was a commercial fisherman who was often away for weeks at a time. She had to use her car (actually, a nice classic pickup) to get food, etc.

She was pulled over several times, she was an easy target for the redneck sheriff. And it was always for something minor...broken tail light, etc. Her name popped up in the National Drivers License Compact Database and she was ticketed for driving with a suspended license. Little did we know, but if this happens several times (3 or 4?), it turns into a felony!

Well, to make a long story short: she served close to 3 months of a 6 month sentence in the county jail, it cost me a fortune in lawyer's fees, and now, because she is a hardened felon, it's illegal for her to possess a firearm to protect herself.

20 posted on 08/30/2002 5:40:29 PM PDT by Beach_Babe
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To: Beach_Babe
I can't believe they sent your daughter to jail for that crap. In New York they nail people for that all the time, even if the suspension expired several years ago, but it is almost always reduced to an unclassified misdemeanor which carries a $200 fine. That is in addition to the fee you pay DMV to restore the driving privileges.

Having said that, I still think it stinks that N.Y. accuses people of insurance lapses and suspends their licenses just because they moved to another state and forgot to turn in the stupid license plates. If they are going to keep interstate records of when somebody does something wrong why can't they keep track of when somebody moves and gets a license in a new state?
143 posted on 08/30/2002 8:13:48 PM PDT by ganesha
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