Buddy gets pulled over for 73 in a 70 by Tx dps

[statusquo]

Around the university in Chico, CA 3 mph over will get you a $300 ticket. Rolling stops are $375. State hired more CHP even with the budget crisis and they are exempt from the furlough days the governor has imposed on most state agencies except the CHP "Since they make money for the state." They even got a sweeter retirement deal last September over other state agencies and teachers.

School zones suck if they are in maximum enforcement mode. One cop pulled an entire herd of cars over for being over 25 mph. Co-worker got stopped in her van and ticketed for 5 over. Cop just stood in the street near a wide corner by the school at 8 AM and pointed everyone over and ended up tagging everyone. School zone tickets are probably out of sight with the new local court fees they add on.

It's getting very costly in CA for any ticket and backed-up traffic court judges push the cases quickly so you have no defense and they won't listen to more than two sentences out of you. That traffic school costs another $60+ now too. Sitting in traffic court all you hear is $800 this or $900 that. Plus, if your get a suspension by the judge, a cop will follow you out the parking lot and have your car towed and impounded on the spot. I thought seeing a flatbed tow truck in the courthouse lot was weird and maybe someone had broken down, but he makes money on license suspensions. If you can afford a lawyer, he will wander about the courtroom and go up and talk to the judge at times. He wants to leave. Sort of funny to watch them work the system, but their clients seem to get dismissals where others don't. Course, it costs a bundle too.

Be careful out there.

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[v1user]

I would consider the written warning the same as a verbal. I know of a specific leo in my neck of the woods that always leaves his customers with a souvenir. Ninety-six percent of the time that souvenir is a written warning. He even told the dispatcher that he always writes something. For the amount of traffic that he runs, he must stop people going even 1-5 over. Coincidentally, he is also one of the top DWI busters in the area.

If you can afford a lawyer, he will wander about the courtroom and go up and talk to the judge at times. He wants to leave. Sort of funny to watch them work the system, but their clients seem to get dismissals where others don't. Course, it costs a bundle too.

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Another reason to hate lawyers.

[statusquo]

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If you can afford a lawyer, he will wander about the courtroom and go up and talk to the judge at times. He wants to leave. Sort of funny to watch them work the system, but their clients seem to get dismissals where others don't. Course, it costs a bundle too.

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Another reason to hate lawyers.

Sometimes a necessary evil.

My last encounter cost me $900 with a lawyer. Got dismissed and expunged from the records. Seems they double the court fees and ticket fine to arrive at their price since California has gone mad with their court fees added to the fine.

Hiring a lawyer is the cost of having no points or a record that the insurance company would love to make money off of. He had to go to court three times for me. Last time I had to show up as well, but it got dismissed as the lawyer coached me on what to say in the hallway - which I didn't need to as he and the judge yacked a bit at the bench in private and judge said "Dismissed" and the court reporter handed the lawyer my walking papers and we were outta there. Yay!

It was a big pain that took almost a year to get rid of. I learned the cop can revise their ticket too after the fact which the lawyer had to work around. Found that out from the lady at the window in the court when I tried to find out why it was taking so long (I had to go out of the country and needed a clean DMV print-out to rent over there.). She said, "The cop is revising his tickets" which I think is bogus (He initially wrote the wrong VC code down for the infraction so I was hoping that was my out. Wrong!). I thought the lawyer was stalling and it was the cop who was doing it. Took him almost 3-4 months to get it into the court's computer system so the lawyer could access the file. Took another 3 months for the traffic court guy to get to it with the lawyer, and another 3 months to get me and the lawyer there together. What a lengthy mess, but it is gone now.

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[Weeth]

That really sucks... sorry to hear that. I've heard stories like that, but living in tx, I've noticed that most of the cops are pretty lenient...

10 over on a city street is almost always a ticket.

Show your friend this forum... I've gotten no tickets so far cuz of my detector. Next I'm getting a jammer!!!

[Fritter]

A written warning and the stop was because he was looking for something else. Especially when you are close to the border. I bet a dime to a donut that this was an interdiction.

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[v1user]

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If you can afford a lawyer, he will wander about the courtroom and go up and talk to the judge at times. He wants to leave. Sort of funny to watch them work the system, but their clients seem to get dismissals where others don't. Course, it costs a bundle too.

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Another reason to hate lawyers.

Sometimes a necessary evil.

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X2 to what Collector Fritter said. They were looking for something else.

[Lucky225]

A written warning and the stop was because he was looking for something else. Especially when you are close to the border. I bet a dime to a donut that this was an interdiction.

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roflz

[Phil424]

Where was the cop and purpose for car stop?

[tick-tock]

Do you think 5 over the PSL is safe? My buddy got a written warning for 73 on his way to New Mexico. He was leaving again this weekend for NM so i let him borrow my Whistler SE.

Sounds like a complete fishing expedition.

[Freebird]

If it were a school zone with children crossing etc I would say he deserved it... No tolerance from me here, but on the open interstate on the way to NM no way. That Officer was bored and looking for something bigger like Fritter said.