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Overland Park driving while suspended charges carry a mandatory jail sentence - call our firm's lawyers to learn about options to keep you out of jail

A driving while suspended ticket in Overland Park, KS may seem like a minor charge, but it can carry very serious potential penalties, including jail time (mandatory for every conviction), a fine of hundreds or even thousands of dollars, an additional length of the driver's license suspension, hundreds of dollars in reinstatement fees, and an SR-22 requirement.  Call our law firm at (913)764-5010 to speak to an Overland Park traffic attorney about your driving while suspended ticket.

Our law office's driving while suspended lawyers may be able to secure a diversion, amendment, or dismissal for your Overland Park driving while suspended case.  Our traffic attorneys regularly meet with Overland Park Municipal Prosecutors to discuss our client's DWS case and secure amendments to non-moving violations which will not negatively affect your driving record or insurance rates.  In other cases, our traffic law firm can negotiate a diversion agreement which, if completed successfully, can lead to a dismissal of the Overland Park driving while suspended/revoked charge.

Jail time for Overland Park driving while suspended convictions:

The laws in Overland Park, KS call for a jail sentence for every driving while suspended conviction in Overland Park Municipal Court - even for first time offenders with a clean driving record.

Overland Park Municipal Court judges regularly sentence folks who are convicted of driving while suspended to 90 day jail sentence, 6 month jail sentences, or even one year jail sentences for drivers with prior driving while suspended convictions on their driving record.

Our law firm's traffic attorneys may be able to help you avoid jail time in an Overland Park driving while suspended case.   Our lawyers will negotiate with Overland Park Municipal Court prosecutors for an advantageous resolution in your case to either avoid a conviction and the associated jail time or to secure a "suspended sentence," which will not require you to serve jail time. 

Results are different in each case and depend on the circumstances and your driving record.

Fines for Overland Park driver's license suspension convictions:

Every conviction for driving while suspended/revoked (DWS/DWR) in Overland Park Municipal Court will include hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in fines and court costs. 

To make matters worse, if you are sentenced to jail time, you will have to pay for each day you are ordred to serve!  That is right, they make you pay to go to jail.

If these amounts are not paid, then the judge can order you back to jail or extend any probation periods until the amounts are paid in full.  In other cases, the balances will be sent to a collection agency that will hound you forever.

Additional driver's license suspensions for each Overland Park driving while suspended conviction:

A conviction for driving while suspended in Overland Park, Kansas will result in the Kansas Department of Revenue suspending your driver's license for at least an additional 90 days, depending on your driving record.

A Overland Park driving while suspended/revoked conviction is also one of the violations which count towards a "habitual violator" designation which will result in a driver's license suspension of an additional three years if you have three violations within a five year period.

Reinstatement fees to restore your driver's license following an Overland Park, KS DWS conviction:

In addition to the other penalties described above, drivers convicted of driving while suspended in Overland Park will be required to pay a reinstatement fee of either $100 or $300 to the Kansas Department of Revenue, depending upon their driving record. (KSA 40-3118 (f))