Speeding ticket

[Bull69]

I got a speeding ticket, and the cop put the wrong date and put am instead of pm on the time. I was wondering if I had a chance to get out of it, because of his mistakes. It was 23 miles over the speed limit so it is a 6 point violation.

 

[Captain_insano]

Bro you need to get a radar dectector if you are going to speed. Either that or a PBA card.

 

[Bull69]

I was late to our Board of Directors meeting, and it went from 75 to 55mph I got pulled over about a 1/4 mile into the 55mph speed limit.

 

[manny78]

Dunno there but here you cant no longer argue with stupid arguments like that. Jufges will refuse it.

BTW radar detector aren't so effective like they used to be. Cops now use new radars working on different frequencies. Pretty hard to hack.

 

[curling]

Ask for a trial by jury and then when that comes up the prosecutor will try to make a deal with you. Tell him you will pay the court cost and agree to refer adjufication with a 30 or 60 probation and if you have to offer to take DDC.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Call the prosecuting atty. (or better yet, write)

Advise that you are busy and would like to appear tocontst it, but you don't know if you can. Advise him that you'd be willing to pay a fine, but you feel as though you are not guilty of the stated offense, but you;d entertain pleading guilty to something else.

Your fine won't drop, but you'll probably get offered something that is fewer points.

 

[Warik]

Or get a lawyer and get no points and no traffic school.

Never walk into a courtroom without a lawyer. Sure you "can do it yourself," but I'm sure the time you spend getting all of that bullshit done is worth more to you than whatever petty fee a ticket defense firm is going to charge you - especially for a 23 over violation.

Besides, a guilty-anything doesn't look good on anyone's record.

I got stopped on the Turnpike in December for 79 in a 60. For a $70 fee, I got a not guilty plea with no points, no traffic school, and no BS insurance hike. Hoping to get an as-good or better result from my 21 mile-over "outside the schoolzone but I say you were in it" monster.

-Warik

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Or get a lawyer and get no points and no traffic school.

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This wiorks too. But a lawyer is going to do exactly what I described above. Save the $500 if you can.

 

[curling]

This wiorks too. But a lawyer is going to do exactly what I described above. Save the $500 if you can.

Exactly but my idea will work even better because the prosecutor is more likely to bend if you ask for a trial by jury. They HATE those for speeding tickets but it is your right so why not ask for one. Plus it puts court date way back so hopefully the cop will quit or forget about it.

 

[StoneColdGold]

same damn thing happened to me...

i was coming from out of the city where the speed limit is 75. i get pulled over after coming into the city going 79, but the limit had dropped to 55.

because it was 20+mph over the limit, it was a required court appearance. problem was i was moving out of state the next week.

obviously i couldn't make my court appearance, so i was told to do a plea by mail, and plead guilty, which is what i did.

anybody have any idea what kind of shit i'm looking at being stuck with?

 

[Warik]

This wiorks too. But a lawyer is going to do exactly what I described above. Save the $500 if you can.

$500? Only cost me $70. =)

-Warik

 

[dimitrios]

Dunno there but here you cant no longer argue with stupid arguments like that. Jufges will refuse it.

BTW radar detector aren't so effective like they used to be. Cops now use new radars working on different frequencies. Pretty hard to hack.

Not to pick on you, but please use spell check (Jufges??)

 

[SofaGeorge]

I got a speeding ticket, and the cop put the wrong date and put am instead of pm on the time. I was wondering if I had a chance to get out of it, because of his mistakes. It was 23 miles over the speed limit so it is a 6 point violation.

Bulldog, I know exactly what this means and what you need to do. Putting the wrong date on the ticket immediately makes it an "invalid document." You need to file for an appearence to contest the ticket ASAP. You also need to keep your filing information to show when you filed. (You didn't say when the ticket was issued and what date the cop wrote.) If he wrote months off (i.e., 7-6-02 instead of 2-6-02) you are free and clear. If he wrote 7-5-02 instead of 7-6-02 you will need to request the ticket book and document that the tickets written before yours and after yours were for a different date.

Where this can get tricky:
1. The cop could back track the ticket number and enter it in the computer as having been written on the date he wrote (I had a cop do this to me after he wrote the wrong date. Fortunately, I logged my court appearence PRIOR to when the ticket was supposed to have been written.)
2. The cop can claim YOU are wrong and that is the date you received the ticket.

Bottom line... you have to document the date is wrong. If you can... it is invalid.

 

[poon daddy]

Just becuase the time is incorrct WILL NOT void the ticket.
That error alone is not enough.
I have been sitting through traffic court for 8 years now. and have yet to see that argument win.

 

[poon daddy]

and is push comes to shove. The Officer will be able to document the appx time it was written by tracking his violation numbers prior to and after said violation.

 

[Tha One CrumCake]

I've been to traffic school 3 times already.

And I recently got 2 speeding tickets in the same week, a few weeks ago.


.TI GNIRB TSUJ . FothaMuckaz.

 

[toga22]

I almost got a speeding ticket this morning on the way to work.....but I somehow finessed my way out of it and just got a warning. Whew!!

~toga

 

[beastboy]

Here you can ask the judge to take it under advisement...which means it will not go on your record or get any points unless you have another violation in the set time. If you stay clear in that time then it is dropped.