Speeding ticket "myth question"

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  1. Dec 31, 2010 #1
    Dna Mach

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    I received a speeding ticket in my POV.

    My question,

    Is it a myth about wrong information on the ticket resulting in dismissal?

    All information is correct except the vehicle info. I drive a F-150. The ticket lists the vehicle as "pickup/El Camino" It's computer generated and not handwritten.

    My next question, after arriving home I went to get my mail and in there I found my notice from the Superior Court of California in there. A few weeks ago I left Sacramento and did not log it and got caught. I did the crime and will pay the fine. $675 that's SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE AND NO/CENTS! $200 OR $300 I was thinking, wow was I wrong.

    Would I pay less through a lawyer, in someones opinion?

    I really enjoy this job and will pay the fines when I act like a worthless criminal but this is excessive.

    Thanks in advance for any info.
     
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  3. Dec 31, 2010 #2
    CondoCruiser

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    A good lawyer can get you out of it. Probably cost you a couple hundred that way.

    If you had the tags changed over, it's their responsibilty to update the computer. Wrong info is incompetance the officer didn't know exactly what was going on.

    A lawyer would ask him what type of vehicle it was. Since he deals with so many, he probably forgot you and would rely on the paperwork. So you saw an El Camino speeding, this guy drives a pick up. Case dismissed.

    At least in my world that's the way it would happen. CA is on the other side. :)
     
    CondoCruiser, Dec 31, 2010
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  4. Dec 31, 2010 #3
    Roadmedic

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    Ticket written to pickup/El Camino.

    Last time I looked F-150 is a pickup.

    El Camino has not been around for many years.
     
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  5. Dec 31, 2010 #4
    FriedTater

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    NO! you can not beat a ticket against your CDL
    Its been many years since they dropped the Deferred Adjudication.
    All the Lawyers and pre-pay legal services in the world will not stop that citation from hitting your MVR.
    You are Government Property the day you put that CDL in your pocket.

    Ticket errors mean less then nothing FWIW
     
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  7. Dec 31, 2010 #5
    Dna Mach

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    Thanks.

    Yea it's a long-shot, I know but desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm curious as to why that thing would say El Camino in the first place as your right. I only see them at car shows and on blocks behind abandoned buildings.

    This will be my first time to ever fight a ticket so I have no idea what I am doing or what I am up against and the thing that really makes me wonder is the countless websites for Traffic Lawyers telling me not to worry "$$$$we got this$$$$" Take my money I just need my job.
     
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  8. Dec 31, 2010 #6
    FriedTater

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    and take your money they will . . . . .
    You cant fight the Fed's,their daddy can whip your daddy.
     
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  9. Dec 31, 2010 #7
    CondoCruiser

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    If it's like where I live, money talks.
     
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  10. Dec 31, 2010 #8
    FriedTater

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    Money can SCREAM from the highest mountain
    Once that CDL # hits the system the Feds OWN IT!

    I have pretty deep pockets and working knowledge of the consequences:biggrin_25521:

     
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  11. Dec 31, 2010 #9
    dieselbear

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    At least where I work, with the electronic tickets, you don't catch an error until it prints out. I amend the error at trial. Put it in my notes and when the judge calls the case, "your honor, there was an error in the printing of the electronic citation, I need to amend XXXXXXXXX."

    If the officer did not catch it and note it, you might have a chance, but the judge has the final say.
     
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    Crash935

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    Its just a basic description of the type of vehicle. Dont think you will win with that argument.
     
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