So...I have gotten 3 tickets on my 2007 CLS 550 since December and I have not gone to court for any of them. Two of them happened in Orange County and one of them happened in Riverside County. First question...are the records hooked up county by county? What I mean is if I wanted to go to traffic school for one of my Orange County cases and the one in Riverside...would they know if I went to court near the same time period?
Now...the first one I got in December which was in Orange County I was going either 45 or 50 in a 30 on PCH. I did not keep that citation but I will call DMV to find out exactly what I was going but I was able to get that extended until April 7 which is coming up....I am going to see if I will be able to somehow talk them into giving me another one.
The 2nd one I got near the end of February which was in Orange County the officer cited me going 65 in a 50 and I got that extended to June 2nd...
Now...the 3rd one I got it from a CHP coming back from Riverside county. The officer cited me 88 in a 65. Is there anyone who can give me some suggestions???
If I can somehow do traffic school for two of them (like the one in Riverside and O.C.) it wouldn't be too bad....but if I can only do one then my insurance will skyrocket....any suggestions of what to do? Should I fight the cases? How is written declaration?? I'm a great writer...I just don't know what to do and I need help!!!! Thanks a lot
Every County in the State uses the same DMV database, and they check other states, too. You're on-record with three, and the judge at each of the 3 trials will have a card in front of him or her that shows every citation/infraction/arrest in the past TEN years. This is unrelated to how long your insurance company counts things.
Try to hire a lawyer, speeding cases are really easy to fight off. Also, I don't know about cross-county, but if you can, try to consolidate them into one court date. That way usually the court would kind of work a deal for you if you have a lawyer, which you may plead 1 case and drop the other 2 or at least 1.
Try to hire a lawyer, speeding cases are really easy to fight off. Also, I don't know about cross-county, but if you can, try to consolidate them into one court date. That way usually the court would kind of work a deal for you if you have a lawyer, which you may plead 1 case and drop the other 2 or at least 1.
I'm not sure about Hawaii, but I can state with some authority that speeding cases in California are NOT "easy to fight off". Technology has made most speeding tickets a slam-dunk even for a green prosecutor (any prosecutor would love to receive your written declaration, because now they don't even have to talk to you before a trial and they can lock you into that statement and use it to trip you up...in other words, don't consider such a thing). I would agree with the advice of hiring an attorney, not because s/he will come with a Harry Potter wand that will make all this go away, but rather because hiring a lawyer buys you some credibility such that s/he may be able to reach a negotiation more easily than you -- and s/he'll know the procedure to consolidate the tickets. If you are actually lame enough to send a declaration and go to court then your only hope is that the officers fail to show up and/or that their notes are awful and they trip themselves up. Absent that, the odds are you will leave with three convictions -- and maybe an enhancement.
The other point is that your focus is misplaced; you shouldn't be in trying to get out of these tickets. If you got popped for those violations in that short a period of time you're speeding habitually and that's an accident waiting to happen. Even if you're an awesome driver, trusting the other fools to stay out of your way isn't the brightest move in the world.
Hire an attorney, the best you can afford.
Good luck...
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If the lawyer is not going to help very much as Greg says, why hire him? Go to the courts in your best suits and made believable excuses hoping for the best.
For the money you save by not hiring attorney you can hire a limo driver to drive you around till the tickets will expire.
The traffic schools are different in each jurisdiction and you are allowed one only. That would be probably the first ticket.
Good luck
how da heck did you get ticket in Orange Co with all the traffic there?
I see you a common sense answer and add trade in your rocket car for a slower machine. Perhaps a 1983 240D will slow you down.
Traffic in O.C.???? Traffic isn't bad here, this isn't LA!!!
As for the gentleman who said the tickets are in two different jurisdictions...will I be able to do two different traffic schools or will they be linked together and the judges will be able to see that??
DMV keeps records for all you violations and California law allows traffic school only once every 18 months. Most of the time the note comes in the mail.
I had the same problem at one point. I suggest going to court, keeping your mouth shut and pay the tickets. 1 ticket, I can see, we all get them, two tickets says slow down, three is reckless and the judge will feel this way and even with a lawyer he wont have any leniency for your issues, especially for the kind of car your driving. I got 1 speeding ticket, then two weeks later driving from LA I got pulled over for speeding, I pleading with CHP to let the second one go because I had one on the table already. Luckily he understood my point but that was my lesson learned.
Wear a suit, it shows the judge you have respect for his/her court room. But I say just pay the tickets. Hopefully all three where just infractions and not reckless indangerment charges. Something like this, you want in your past as soon as possible. Good Luck
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