How can I fight these speeding tickets?
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From: Somewhere in NJ
Just my opinion, but wouldn't you have a case that if you would have been stopped timely for doing 50 in a 25 in the 25 zone, that you would have paid more attention to the speed limit and not gotten the other three.
The whole thing sounds shady. I agree, see a lawyer.
The whole thing sounds shady. I agree, see a lawyer.
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From: SF, California
Originally posted by Mok
Here is the ticket.
I can email the picture to you if this doesn't work.
http://gallery.s2ki.com/imagecatalog/image...eview/154317/6/
Here is the ticket.
I can email the picture to you if this doesn't work.
http://gallery.s2ki.com/imagecatalog/image...eview/154317/6/
....HAHA....that cop is a dumbass.....If he had written you four tickets then you may have been in trouble. HOWEVER....since he was a lazy bastard....you get to walk scott free.....Get a lawyer just to be safe but this should be a slam dunk
I am not a lawyer.....but I have had my brush with the law recently...
....Here's the problem with that ticket....there is only one place to put down time and only one place to put down location. When he wrote you up for all the same infractions on the same ticket. He was testifying that you speeded at time X in location Y doing
50 in a 25....60 in a 35....80 in a 55....and 91 in a 65....
Now at time X you were on Road Y.... How could I be going 50 in a 25....60 in a 35....80 in a 55....91 in a 65.....all at the SAME time on the SAME road......Sorry...you can't be four places at once....it violates numerous laws of time and space.
If the cop had written up four tickets each with four different times and places then you would be in trouble. Since he did not you should be able to get off on an invalid ticket.
Still get a lawyer. It's not worth the chance that you could screw this up defending it. Too much to risk but it should be a slam dunk for any competent laywer.....
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From: Denver CO
Originally posted by Mok
What do you guys think about using a public defendant when I show up to court?
What do you guys think about using a public defendant when I show up to court?
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From: San Jose
I don't think you get a public defender, it's not a criminal charge, it's a moving violation. Go pay the few hundred and get an attorney that's well-versed in traffic laws. I'd suspect that at a minimum you should be able to plead down to one violation.