speeding ticket question
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There are all kinds of tricks
You can go to court and plead not guilty and hope the cop doesn't show. If you do that and he shows after you've entered your plea (like is required in Ontario, Canada) then you could be in an awkward spot. I did that when I got a ticket that was SO wrong. The cop claimed I was travelling roughly 20mph over the limit in the opposite direction from him. He was wrong and I told him so, and when he ran my license in his car he saw I was clean. I did all kinds of research and took photos to show I wasn't half-assing it, and I never even had to present it.
Second ticket, I WAS speeding and was caught by a trap (very small amount over the limit). It took 14 months for the court date and motioned for a dismissal based on an unreasonable amount of time to trial. I got off of that.
Last ticket was also a speed trap (again, barely over the limit), after 13 months I hadn't received a formal court date by mail, and called in to discover that the court had dropped the charge because at that point they determined it would be roughly 2 years after the ticket that I would go to fight it. I had actually moved across the country and was expecting to fly back to fight it but it got off.
You can go to court and plead not guilty and hope the cop doesn't show. If you do that and he shows after you've entered your plea (like is required in Ontario, Canada) then you could be in an awkward spot. I did that when I got a ticket that was SO wrong. The cop claimed I was travelling roughly 20mph over the limit in the opposite direction from him. He was wrong and I told him so, and when he ran my license in his car he saw I was clean. I did all kinds of research and took photos to show I wasn't half-assing it, and I never even had to present it.
Second ticket, I WAS speeding and was caught by a trap (very small amount over the limit). It took 14 months for the court date and motioned for a dismissal based on an unreasonable amount of time to trial. I got off of that.
Last ticket was also a speed trap (again, barely over the limit), after 13 months I hadn't received a formal court date by mail, and called in to discover that the court had dropped the charge because at that point they determined it would be roughly 2 years after the ticket that I would go to fight it. I had actually moved across the country and was expecting to fly back to fight it but it got off.
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