Sugarloaf Key, FL Criminal Defense Law Firms & Lawyers

You will be charged with Driving While License Suspended with Knowledge or possibly without knowledge. If you have no record the consequences are minor and you should go get your DL back ASAP so you can show the prosecutor and Judge you really do have the right to drive or are serious about following the law.

It's impossible to give you any guess about punishment without more information from you. We have progressive sentencing, but the judge still has a lot of discretion.

If this happened when you were over 18, you cannot seal it in California. We also don't have a true "expungement" law that will remove things from your record. The closest thing we have is a dismissal pursuant to Penal Code section 1203.4. Assuming you successfully completed probation and are not on probation for any other offenses, you can petition to have your case dismissed. If granted, it will allow you to tell most private employers that you have not been convicted of a crime. It doesn't erase it from your record, just puts a notation that your case was subsequently dismissed. It still remains, however and can be used as a prior, should you get theft offenses in the future, etc. That's as far as current law will allow you to clean up your record.