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As a Ticket Assassin Member, your membership fee supports my website. As such, I will support and encourage your fight to win your case. My twenty years of experience in fighting traffic tickets is at your disposal, including ongoing research into contesting strategies. Why should you always fight your traffic ticket? When you receive a traffic ticket, the court will usually suggest that you must appear twice to contest it: first to appear and plead not guilty and second to stand trial with the officer present.
This is not true. You can contest your ticket by mail without making a single court appearance. Contesting your citation through the mail gives you a better chance of winning your case than at a court trial.
Even if you seem to be guilty of violating the law, the procedural hassles for the prosecution will often lead to a dismissal. If the prosecution does not submit its version of events in writing to the court by the deadline date, your case will be dismissed regardless of your guilt or innocence. About Members-Only Declarations. In other words, you can get rid of the case by showing that the evidence does not support just one element of the rule.
You should not worry that your argument is overly technical or nitpicky. The judge will take a detail-oriented approach to their legal analysis as well. Many tickets have been defeated based on a very small nuance, even when the driver violated the main elements of a rule. Read more here about researching traffic laws. Sometimes a driver violated the letter of the law but had a legitimate reason for doing so. Perhaps they were responding to a medical emergency or a sudden hazard that they could not have anticipated.
Or perhaps they were legally justified in their actions, such as when a driver slows down in the left lane before turning left. In other situations, the officer may have made a mistake. In still other situations, an officer makes a subjective judgment about whether a behavior is unsafe, and a driver may be able to argue that this judgment was unreasonable.
This may apply in speeding ticket cases based on an alleged violation of a presumed speed limit. Saying that you did not realize what the law was or pointing out that nobody got hurt also are not winning arguments. Avoid points : Most traffic violations carry 2-point penalties, whereas more serious offenses such as driving while intoxicated come with 6-point penalties. You may end up losing your driving license if you get points in two years. Choosing to not contest the charges could, therefore, turn out to be a bad choice for you.
Lack of evidence would work in your favor : If you choose to fight your ticket, the traffic police officer that issued it must appear in court and show evidence to prove the conviction. They must be able to give a valid reason why they suspected you of breaking the traffic laws. For instance, if you are fighting a speeding ticket, they need to show evidence recorded by a radar gun. If they fail to do so, you could have your ticket dismissed.
Traffic officers are generally pretty good at identifying the correct code section corresponding to the alleged violation. But you may still have a viable defense to present in traffic court. Some defenses have a good chance of success. However, there are also some defenses that drivers often try but almost never succeed. So, it's important to know which defenses work and which typically don't work in traffic court.
The best strategies for fighting a traffic ticket depend heavily on the specific circumstances. For example, defenses to speeding tickets often involve challenging the accuracy of the officer's speed measurement. And with stop sign and red light tickets assuming it's not a red light camera ticket , showing that the officer didn't have a good vantage point to accurately assess the situation can be a successful defense.
Drivers frequently come into traffic court with excuses that don't amount to legal defenses. For example, a driver might say something like, "I was in a hurry to get to work and didn't realize how fast I was going. It's also common for drivers to simply dispute the officer's version of events without providing any reasons or support.
When a case comes down to the driver's word against the officer's word, the driver typically loses. No matter what your defense is, you normally win if the officer fails to show up on the day of the trial. Don't underestimate the possibility of this happening. For all sorts of reasons, including the officer being on vacation, having a scheduling conflict, having been transferred, or not being notified of the court date, cops often miss court hearings.
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