the point of hiring a lawyer is not to avoid the fees and surcharges. You are obviously correct that the lawyers fee is generally substantially more than even the heftiest speeding violation. However, especially for males under the age of 25, the $1000+/yr increase in insurance premiums are far MORE than even the most qualified traffic lawyer would charge to get the ticket reduced.
Second, you honestly never qualified that you only laugh when the person sends the request to the wrong location. Your statement implied that you ignored even the correctly written requests. Obviously, you have further qualified what you meant, and obviously you are correct. many times forum-members are frustrated by the lack of cooperation from the police, but again, it isn't your job to tell the defendant that he simply submitted the request to the wrong location.
Third, if you would read up on these forums some more, you would see that rarely is it the case that "courts don't even want to hear it" when shown that the requests weren't fulfilled. In only a handful of cases where the information was not returned promptly upon legitimate request did the judge decide to proceed anyways, and the legality of such a move is questionably at best.
I hope this has been informative to you, and I personally enjoy your presence on this forum. However, please try and keep an open mind, because it is obvious to me, and I hope now to yourself, that simply because you are a police officer, doesn't mean you have nothing to learn about these matters. |