My question involves traffic court in the State of: California
Hello all, I am making my post here today because I am very worried that I made a serious mistake and I am hoping that someone out there can help me.
I got a traffic citation from an officer because I didn't have my proof of insurance on my persons.
On the citation that he wrote me I signed for an "appearance court date" but then about a week later I received a courtesy note from the court saying that they processed my citation and I needed to clear it up by posting bail or showing proof by appearing in court on a different date than the one on my citation.
Thinking that this new date overrode the one on the citation I forgot about it only to find the citation lying around today and realizing that I had missed that court date.
I had also checked on the website putting in my name and drivers license and the only citation listed was the one on the courtesy note.
My question is: did the date on my courtesy note override my citation date?
the citation date was 12/8/09 yesterday
and the courtesy note date is not til the 23rd
I will be going in first thing tomorrow to check on it and the make sure that if I did do something wrong I can fix it right away.
Who knows I might be overreacting but it's better to be safe than sorry.
Thanks guys

