Misdemeaner 2?

Published Jan 16, 2015

sewmama1980

1 Post

I have had the day from hell..............I have been in Florida for about 8 months, I was stupid, I never got all my paperwork together to get my Florida drivers license. So I am still driving on the license from my old state. I live about 2 miles from work and to be honest with you, I tried a few times to get it done but do not have a really good excuse. So today I was off from work and I went to pick my son up from school (0.9 miles away) and did not realize I had a tail light out, until I got stopped by a cop. He asked me for my ID, I then realized I left my purse at home. So he asked me for my name and date of birth, all that jazz, he told me he was going to run a check on me and make sure my license was valid in the state I am originally from. Well he comes back to the vehicle and tells me I need to call someone to come get my vehicle because I am not legal to drive, so I called my husband, please understand this whole time, I am less than 1000 feet from my house. he goes back to the squad car and comes back to my vehicle all serious and tells me he needs me to step out of the vehicle, so I asked him 'why.' He proceeds to pull open my door and pull me out of the vehicle and handcuff me, he told me I was resisting arrest. At this point I am a wreck, I have two children 5 and under in my vehicle and I am thinking that I unknowingly committed some crime, I really just did not know what to think. He then tells me that I was reaching for something and I should not have asked him why he wanted me to step out of my vehicle. I was not rude, I was just shocked this whole time, but at this point I thought I was going to vomit on him or pass out, it was horrifying. Long story short when my husband walked down from the house he uncuffed me and told me he was not going to arrest me for resisting arrest. He told me I need to show up in court for a misdemeanor 2 residency violation. Am I going to lose my nursing license, what happens when a person goes to court for a misdemeanor traffic violation? Do I need a lawyer to go to court with me, I mean am I going to get there and them ask me how I plead and then take me to jail and then I will not have a license when I get out. I have never been in trouble, I was planning on applying to APN schools when my kids got in school, is this going to make that impossible.