Driving with expired lisence

What is the name of your state? Texas.
I was in an auto accident an gave the officer that came to the scene all my information. I gave the officer my driver's licsence and he took all the personal information need for the report from it. When the officer was done he said I could leave the scene and go home. I got into a car with someone else driving, at this time I still did not know about the expired licsence, and went home. After I arrived home and was going into my home, on private propert, the office pulled up and proceeded to write me a ticket for no driver's licsence. The information on the ticket was for the scene of the accident. Can the officer do this or was he trying to save his own self for not doing a coplete job? He did not follow me home, he just showed up after we were going into our home?

kiliansk said:

What is the name of your state? Texas.
I was in an auto accident an gave the officer that came to the scene all my information. I gave the officer my driver's licsence and he took all the personal information need for the report from it. When the officer was done he said I could leave the scene and go home. I got into a car with someone else driving, at this time I still did not know about the expired licsence, and went home. After I arrived home and was going into my home, on private propert, the office pulled up and proceeded to write me a ticket for no driver's licsence. The information on the ticket was for the scene of the accident. Can the officer do this or was he trying to save his own self for not doing a coplete job? He did not follow me home, he just showed up after we were going into our home?

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My response:

Of course he can "do this". What makes you think he can't?

IAAL

Not only could he do what he did, he could have simply mailed the citation to you.

"Can the officer do this or was he trying to save his own self for not doing a coplete job?"

I don't follow your logic. The officer did do a complete job. When he ran your license and was informed it was expired, he issued you a citation. Sometimes the system is down or it is busy and it takes awhile for the information to be processed. Or perhaps he did not notice the expiration date at the time. It really doesn't matter.

Renew your license and go talk to the judge. If it is just an oversight on renewing then they may just dismiss the ticket.