Florida Suspended License Questions - Florida Suspended License Attorney

Kevin J. Pitts
386-451-5112

Heiko George Moenckmeier
407-504-1384

 I PAID ALL MY TICKETS AND GOT MY DRIVER’S LICENSE BACK
AND I GOT THIS LETTER IN THE MAIL FROM THE FLORIDA DHSMV DMV THAT SAYS MY LICENSE WILL BE REVOKED FOR FIVE YEARS!  
CAN YOU HELP ME?

This happens all the time throughout Florida.  Call us immediately at 407.504.1384 to speak to Orlando suspended license lawyer Heiko Moenckmeier regarding your impending HTO.      

WHAT IS HTO IN A NUTSHELL?

HTO means your license is revoked for FIVE YEARS, and if you are caught driving on an HTO revocation, you can be arrested and charged with a Felony Driving on Suspended License.  The most common cause is paying three driving while license suspended without knowledge tickets at the clerk of court within a five year period.  Another common cause is that a person has been convicted of a combination of civil and criminal driving on suspended license within the last 5 years.

HOW ARE THEY TAKING MY LICENSE?
I JUST PAID A TON OF MONEY TO GET IT BACK!

The most common reason for a person to be deemed Habitual Traffic Offender is that a person paid all their outstanding tickets, which included multiple civil driving on suspended license without knowledge citations within the last five (5) years.  What people don’t know (and where we can help) is that if you pay your tickets at the clerk of courts counter, you are adjudicated guilty, and you get accompanying points on your drivers license.

WHAT CAN A LAWYER DO TO HELP?

We can attack the adjudications several ways depending on the age of the citations and what County they were paid in.  The most common method is a motion to vacate or collateral attack.  These motions can be filed on both criminal and civil offenses.  Oftentimes, our clients come to us after having been arrested for a criminal felony or misdemeanor driving on suspended license.  We attempt to not only resolve the criminal case at hand, but get our clients their driver’s license issues taken care of.  A confidential consultation with the attorney will flesh out what needs to be done.  If the suspensions are related to child support, that is a different matter for attack.  
Furthermore, the Attorney can attempt to convince the Judge that you didn’t know your license was suspended.  If that happens, they must reduce the charge to driving while license suspended without knowledge which is civil, not criminal.

BEING DEEMED A HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER: HOW IT CAN OCCUR:

Florida Law will deem you to be a Habitual Traffic Offender (HTO) and revoke your license for 5 years if you been convicted of any combo of the three offenses listed below within a Five (5) year period:

a) Criminal Driving on suspended license with knowledge (even if you got a withhold of adjudication),
b) Civil Driving on suspended license WITHOUT knowledge
c) Driving under the Influence (DUI)
d) Vehicular manslaughter
e) Leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury;
f) Using a motor vehicle to commit another felony offense; or
g) Driving a commercial vehicle while your driver's license is suspended.