[DeTomaso] Speeding ticket check returned

[MikeLDrew at aol.com]

All,

California has a sweet deal going.   You can combat a ticket in writing, 
before the fact.   When you receive the citation in the mail, you are presented 
with three options--plead guilty, plead innocent and request a court appearance, 
or plead innocent and request to fight the ticket in writing.

The beautiful thing is, if you contest the ticket in writing, and lose, THEN 
you get to appear in court to contest it AGAIN, so you get two chances to beat 
it.

If you contest it in writing, you simply submit a written statement of the 
facts as you see them.   The issuing officer is then given a homework assignment 
to generate a similar written statement of the facts as he sees them.

If he fails to do so, the charges are dismissed.   And if he does decide to 
do his homework, and you lose, then you get to face him in court.

I have had several friends who got speeding tickets here in the past few 
years; they were cut-and-dry tickets where they were guilty as hell, caught on 
radar etc.   Every one was dismissed after submitting a written 
statement--probably because cops hate homework and can't be bothered.

You might want to check to see if your state has a similar setup.

Mike (who will never take a dive again!)


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