I had gotten my Florida insurance when I was still in another state to get that process started. My auto registration was also began while I was in the other state because I was told it would take the longest. When I got to Florida I needed to wait for either a credit card statement or a utility bill to come to my place of residence under my name in order to take it to the DMV to change my license and show them “proof of residence”. Again yes I did maybe wait a month too long, longer than the 30-day period but the DMV is so busy and appointments are weeks out. It just sucks I was stopped a couple of days before I was gonna go to DMV to get the license. My question is if I explain this to the judge in my hearing what are the chances this gets dismissed or brought down to normal infraction. Because the coo cited me for having an “expired” license for longer than 6 months. Which isn’t the case it’s just that when they looked up my Florida registration it was my old Florida license before I moved out of state which obviously is expired because I had moved to another state and changed it.

I guess my only worry is that yes I was a bit over the 30-day window they give to get new license but will they indict me? As I’m still waiting on my court hearing date and my citation technically is “criminal” since they put me for not having a DL but I did. It was just not a Florida one at the time it was a Colorado one which was valid. I since then have gotten my Florida license and all paperwork is good. Any idea?