Thread: Are there any attorneys here that can help me with a case?

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

so the cops that sit on the side of one of the side roads around here REALLY aren't justified in the tickets they are writing.

This side road only has a 35mph sign posted on one side of the road, facing the traffic on that side of the road. There isn't a sign posted on the other side of the road. The only sign giving any indication is on an intersecting road, and it's speed is 45.

Yet they continue to sit there....putting a radar on the traffic coming from the direction where there's no sign...

I've just been hoping they would pull me over one day...

I am talking about the laws in California. The laws in your neck of the woods might be different, but look at http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/inju...oc/txspeed.pdf The Basic Speed Law is the same as in California, for the most part.

As for the Traffic Survey, I think that is a very unique California thing, but there might be similar requirements in other states. You gotta do the research

Michael

Originally Posted by edrex

Wired,
So help me out on this one... I got pulled over on a Saturday night, 2:30am. Obviously when the cops are looking for DUI's. I was pulled over and cited a fix-it ticket for not having a front license plate, and having tint on my front drivers and passenger side windows. I don't care about the plate, but I don't want to have to take off the tint. Any way of getting around this one?

Where are you located.

Here in California, you can remove the tint, get inspected and signed off on, and pay a $10 administrative fee, OR just pay the entire fine for the offense (and not remove the tint) and forget about getting it fixed. HOWEVER, if you get cited again the Court will know you didn'tremove it, and will increase the fine to a rediculous amount, making it not worth it to keep the tint.

Michael

I'm in Northern Cali. I didn't know you could just ignore it and pay a higher fine. I'll have to find out what that fine is, and whether it would be easier to just pay it, or pay to have the tint removed and then replaced after the ticket is signed off.
Thanks,
ed.

Originally Posted by breaker021

good lord.... This backs up my idea that once you get a ticket, PAY IT - whether you are guilty or NOT!!!!! to me, it is not worth the fight!!! taking days off from work, going through a crapload of paperwork, etc. All this could have been saved on your part if you just payed the ticket - GUILTY OR NOT.

I don't like being hassled. I was once given a ticket for "fare evasion" at a train station here in NYC when I didn't do anything wrong. Instead of having to take a day off to fight this in court, or being shot 50 times by the over zealous cops here - I simply paid it and went to work.

It's a ticket - not jail time. Just because you plead guilty to a ticket doesn't mean YOU YOURSELF are guilty. It's basically telling the state "yeah, whatever, I did it. here's what you want now have a gr8 day."
- sh00k

The is no way in hell I would pay a fine for an offence that I didn't commit.

Originally Posted by edrex

I'm in Northern Cali. I didn't know you could just ignore it and pay a higher fine. I'll have to find out what that fine is, and whether it would be easier to just pay it, or pay to have the tint removed and then replaced after the ticket is signed off.
Thanks,
ed.

In LA, and I assume all of California, if you get it signed off on, then it is 10 bucks plus 240 percent Penalty Assessment,(here is a link with some discussion how PA works http://www.kern.courts.ca.gov/where_money_goes.pdf) so it comes out to be something like 34 bucks. The fine for Tinted windows is like 50 to 70, plus Penalty Assessment. That is like 150 to 240 bucks. Also, don't forget that if you get caught again, the fine goes up.

Michael

Originally Posted by NiSlo

The is no way in hell I would pay a fine for an offence that I didn't commit.

+1

I got pulled over for speeding this summer in RI and beat the ticket

There's this law where if you have a good driving record and can prove it, the judge has the option to dismiss the ticket. I went to court, pled good driving record, and he did just that. No court fees or anything. I was lucky though; if he hadn't dismissed it and my insurance found out, my rates would have skyrocketed since I was still in the 16-24 age bracket.

Some other states might have similar things, it's worth checking out.

It's gonna be interesting next week when I turn 25... insurance should go down but I'll be 1/4 century old :/

Originally Posted by NiSlo

The is no way in hell I would pay a fine for an offence that I didn't commit.

Originally Posted by RedGTiVR6

+1

Here it doesn't matter if you fight or not. The minimum you pay is what they cited you for. Even if they find you not guilty of speeding, the "court" costs and police costs and everything else add up almost to the amount of a ticket.

In colorado it is $10 for every mile over the speed limit you are going. Then there is a $50 mandatory court date where you must plead guilty/not guilty. Even if you want to just pay and be done with it, you can't. You have to go to court and pay the fees. Also with that court fee, if you plead not-guilty they charge you more fees for bogus paperwork. Then taxes.

My speeding ticket was 25mph over which was false (I was going maybe 10 over at most) but I had no way to prove it in a little ricer car in the morning against the cops in this town, so I just paid the ticket. It was over $500 by the time I was done. And all I did was show up for an hour for my chance at the microphone and say "I plead guilty", and then I signed some papers, and waited in the cashier line, and went home.

My mother's friend got a 15mph over, and she too was not going that fast. She was in a minivan with her kids in rush hour traffic. How can you do 70mph in rush hour traffic?! Anyways, she faught it, and the judge found her not guilty because there was no way she could go that fast in rushhour basically. Her court costs were around $450. And she had to miss 1 day of work, and a professional CPA gets payed big bucks.

So moral is, in CO, pay your ticket even if you are innocent. Just grin and bear it.

Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster

Here it doesn't matter if you fight or not. The minimum you pay is what they cited you for. Even if they find you not guilty of speeding, the "court" costs and police costs and everything else add up almost to the amount of a ticket. .

If I am found not guilty then I pay nothing. They pay the court fees for charging me for something I didn't do.

Damn cheek.