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[quote=Anonymous]1. You reinstate your license before going to court or paying a fine. 
2. In most jurisdictions it is a fine, no jail, and if you pay the fine within the time limit you don't have to go to court. 
3. Happens to people all the time. I would have to pull mine out to know when it is up for renewal, I never remember the validity time period and have  a couple of times forgotten about renewing. Once it went over a year and I had to retake the written and road test. 
4. If you go to court, you will be one of the few people there for this. Everyone else is gonna be no insurance, DUS/DUR/DUI, maybe some road violations, maybe some not current registration.
5. Those kinds of courts can be highly entertaining. (I had a DUS once, it was during a highly stressful life situation, tail lights had gone out one night when I was getting sore throat lozenges for my kid who was sick, fixed the next day but forgot to go in and show that they had been fixed. Forgot about the fine, the whole thing, because of other really difficult stuff happening. Also had a broke wrist and surgery, missed the letter warning of pending suspension, later got pulled over driving. Had my license reinstated by the time I went to court, I saw other people in same situation get theirs reduced to no license (a lesser offense) and judge seemed sympathetic that it was a taillight (bad fuse was all) that snowballed, still got called DUS and paid a much bigger fine. And then it was over.

Had I not appeared, I could have been jailed for failure to appear.

Also, prison is not jail. [/quote]

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