Suspended License: How to plead?

This one is kind of questionable because of how it all happened. I was in a wreck last thursday (which wasn't my fault) only to find out that I had a suspended license. This came about from missing a court date for a speeding ticket. I missed the date and apparently upon issuing a failure to appear in court warrant they suspended my license. I received a phone call about the warrant and the ticket and promply went down to the local courthouse to pay the fines. I paid the warrant and the ticket in full and they said "alright you're good to go" and I thought that was it. I never received a letter, phone call, or any kind of notice that said my license was suspended. I have to go to court on the 1st. My question is, how should I plead? I mean, yes I'm guilty of driving with a suspended license but does it make any difference that no one bothered to tell me? Should I plead no contest or would it just be better to plead guilty? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Just paying the fines at the court does not reinstate your license. You then have to go to the DMV and pay another fine to have your license reinstated. DWS can be a fairly major fine and have a major impact on your future insurance premiums. First thing to do is to go to the DMV and get your license reinstated. Then go and see if you can talk to the judge prior to your court date and get it dismissed. Unfortunately, this is a common error and people do not realize that just paying the fine does not clear their license. The judge may drop the charge. If not, I would retain an attorney.

Court date is tomorrow and I have been at home recovering from my wreck since the day it happened. I WOULD have done all of those things, gotten it reinstated etc but THEY NEVER TOLD ME! I never received any kind of notice, no tip, no phone call, NOTHING that said "Hey your license is suspended."

How am I supposed to know to reinstate it if I never knew it was suspended?

That's the catch-22, they are only in it for the money, so they leave the laws that way. That's what started my revocation in Kansas, nobody told me to send in an SR-22 to reinstate my license. Then a snowball effect, and 13 years later, still no license.