I got a DUI in FLA in 2005 (CA license). Thought it was cleared six months later. Probation violation 2008, walking down the sidewalk in Palm Beach FLA... pretextual stop by cop turned up Probation Violation for the 2005 case, they made me go to treatment in my home state, NC. No problem. Case closed.
Left the country to teach at a University in 2012. Came back to California to get my driver's license. Passed, but FLA had a block. I paid $300, block lifted.
They gave me an interim license, but AAA said it was suspended!!! (The dopes at DMV issued me a suspended license!!)
Called CA DMV. CA wants me to repeat the "treatment" class I already completed in 2008. 500 more dollars!!
Lost my temper with the DMV guy on the phone and he admitted "Okay, it's a moneymaking scam, I agree, what do you want me to do about it?"
Also they demand SR22 higher insurance even though the case is 10 years old!
Anything I can do? This is ridiculous and a big moneymaking racket. I hear Colorado will review case and ignore CA block,
when imposed unjustly. Also this "DMV doesn't answer to the courts" crap (wouldn't Constitution prevent Double Jeopardy for my case?) I keep reading has to be a Constitutional violation, no? Isn't anybody concerned by such talk?
Left the country to teach at a University in 2012. Came back to California to get my driver's license. Passed, but FLA had a block. I paid $300, block lifted.
They gave me an interim license, but AAA said it was suspended!!! (The dopes at DMV issued me a suspended license!!)
Called CA DMV. CA wants me to repeat the "treatment" class I already completed in 2008. 500 more dollars!!
Lost my temper with the DMV guy on the phone and he admitted "Okay, it's a moneymaking scam, I agree, what do you want me to do about it?"
Also they demand SR22 higher insurance even though the case is 10 years old!
Anything I can do? This is ridiculous and a big moneymaking racket. I hear Colorado will review case and ignore CA block,
when imposed unjustly. Also this "DMV doesn't answer to the courts" crap (wouldn't Constitution prevent Double Jeopardy for my case?) I keep reading has to be a Constitutional violation, no? Isn't anybody concerned by such talk?