Advice on a Ticket

[Drak]

My question involves police conduct in the State of:Indiana

I was pulled over at around 10:30 at night for a suspended license. The police officer told me he pulled me over after checking my plate, i know they are free to do so. My question is even tho my plate says Suspended there was no way he seen me in the vehicle. Having said that because it sounds like i am driving illegally, Which i was. I had not received a Paper saying my license was suspended and did not know of it until i was stopped by the officer. He was very respectable even tho i don't think he had the right to pull me over. Having said that here is my true question on my Ticket i cant find anything that informs me why i was pulled over and it doesn't even have my speed. I got my license back have been able to do so since a year ago. i recently went and took care of getting it back. Then i call the clerks office and they inform me i get another 90 day suspension for the ticket. I am not sure if this is something to fight due to what the ticket is "driving while suspended".

Side note: my license address isn't my current address but shouldn't it have been forwarded due to ALL our mail being forwarded to the new address???

[PTPD22]

The officer did not need another reason to pull you over other than his computer screen telling him/her that the registered owner of your vehicle was suspended. If there was "no way he seen me in the vehicle," that just increases the reasonableness of his/her stop. It would only be if it was obvious that the driver was NOT the registered owner (example, registered owner is named Fred Smith and driver is a woman) that the stop would be unreasonable. If the registered owner is suspended, that is reasonable suspicion to stop the driver and determine if they are that person without any further suspicion of any other violation.

As for the notification not getting forwarded, that is the responsibility of the post office, not the court. The court (or department of licensing or whoever) is going to mail the notice to the address you provide as your address on your license. That is precisely why you are required by law to notify the department of licensing of any change of address. Once they send notification to the address you provide, their full legal responsibility is fulfilled. If you no longer live at that address, that is on you.