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Fighting a Traffic Ticket in Court - UPDATE: I WON!!!!!!!!!!!
MaximRecoil:
--- Quote from: missioncontrol on January 09, 2008, 12:53:12 pm ---guess it depends on the state/county....
Here:
don't show up = pay full amount
show up = offered a reduction of the traffic infraction lower fine
show up and fight = reduction offer withdrawn and now risk the full amount if you lose.
Here, they generally have a line for traffic court, a few guys in suits come out look at tickets make the reduction offers and you decide to take or leave it. This all happens before you even see the judge. You are given the chance to plead guilty to a lesser offense then you go pay your fine and it's over.
also if you do take the lesser offense (if its offered) and your insurance tries to hit you hard with an increase and your record is spotless otherwise, call them up and ---smurf--- about the increase and threaten to take your business elsewhere. The insurance company may overlook the one traffic violation if it risks losing a good customer.
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That's interesting. Maybe it is that way here now too. I haven't been to traffic court since the early '90s.
Barry Barcrest:
POST REMOVED SO NOT TO ANNOY SAINT
Samstag:
--- Quote from: tommy on January 09, 2008, 01:08:35 pm ---There are times when a person is going the speed limit and just so happens to be in the "point of no return" area under the light and can be seen as breaking the law, when they really are not.
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Right. I addressed those situations under "the light was malfunctioning" and "you weren't paying attention".
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Barcrest on January 09, 2008, 01:15:08 pm ---Hang on you got a ticket for speeding? Didn't you go mad about people speeding down your road and how much you hated it. You wife getting injured when a car slammed into her and all that crap and you are no better than those you complianed about. You say he doesn't like people driving through his block, man you are the biggest hypocrite going.
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I did, yes - about people going 55 in a 30. I was going 20mph in a nonposted 15 zone.
I would be ecstatic about people going past my house at the speed with which I was going past his house.
Let me repeat - I was going 20mph, and the ticket was written up for 20mph. Twenty.
tommy:
--- Quote from: Barcrest on January 09, 2008, 01:15:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 09, 2008, 12:33:52 pm ---
The only time I've ever fought a ticket the cop showed up on his day off. Turns out it was right in front of his damn house - the ticket was for 20 in a 15 on a barely used back road - and he doesn't like people driving through his little block at all. Stupid, stupid Rhode Island. Burned a vacation day and got the full fine and points on my license/insurance hit.
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Hang on you got a ticket for speeding? Didn't you go mad about people speeding down your road and how much you hated it. You wife getting injured when a car slammed into her and all that crap and you are no better than those you complianed about. You say he doesn't like people driving through his block, man you are the biggest hypocrite going.
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--- Quote from: saint on January 09, 2008, 12:35:48 pm ---
Your post was barely, if at all, related to the topic at hand. The purpose of your post was to call chad out in a manner that only serves to antagonize.
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