Getting Traffic Tickets Dismissed using an Attorney
When you receive a traffic ticket the officer
who issues the citation writes down a court date on your citation.
Now you have three options to deal with your ticket
1.
Just go and pay it
2.
Take Defensive driving and still pay court fees
3.
Let an attorney take care of it for you
For this article were going to use a Speeding
Ticket to take your through the legal process. Once an officer has
issued you your ticket or citation you have the three options
mentioned above to resolve it. You’ve chosen to use an attorney
because you don’t want to pay $100 court fee on top of that another
$80.00 for the Defensive Driving Course when if you were to just pay
your ticket you would only pay $150.00. The problem with just paying
the ticket is that you get a bad mark on your driver’s license which
would end up costing you more money in the long run because your
auto insurance would go up. So this is what happens when you hire an
attorney:
You give your ticket to the attorney and you
typically pay the attorney the cost of the ticket for his services.
So if your ticket for speeding was for $150.00, that’s how much you
should pay your attorney. If the attorney tries to charge you more
look for a different one.
Once you pay your attorney your done you don’t have to worry
about anything else or even touch base with your attorney again.
What does the attorney do?
Your attorney will go to your court date and
represent you. He will typically ask the judge to reset the court
date for a latter time, usually about four to five months down the
road. Before the new court date your attorney will go down to the
court house and ask to speak to the District Attorney to try and cut
a deal. Basically he tells the district attorney that he wants to
move forward with a full blown trial, requesting jury and all. Most
counties or cities don’t want your case to go to trial for a traffic
violation because it costs too much money and you tie up the court
house for more important cases. So your attorney will ask the
District Attorney to make him an offer on your ticket, so they
negotiate a price and your attorney will ask the District attorney
to keep your ticket off the DMV (so id doesn’t get reported on your
driver’s license). Once
the deal is made the case is closed. Of course this is the simple
version of the story without going into details of how much paper
work is involved in all this.
Some
pointers for avoiding tickets:
Use a radar detector, if your city has Red
Light cameras Avoid Costly Traffic Tickets. Make Your Car Invisible to Red Light and Speed Cameras
-Jason
