Like hundreds of other people ticketed for traffic infractions in DeKalb County, Bobby Schroeder showed up at court and paid his fine.

But personnel with DeKalb County Recorders Court told the state Department of Driver Services that Schroeder failed to appear, never paid up and his driver's license should be suspended.

That suspension led to two more traffic stops, revocation proceedings of his probation as a first offender, a monthlong sojourn in jail, the loss of his job and the repossession of his car before court personnel belatedly corrected the error, according to Schroeder's attorney.