How to keep tickets off your driving record

Not only that, tickets show up in background checks when done right.

 

It all depends on the state, the judge and most of all, the relationship your lawyer has with the ADA. Both of the below were brokered by a local lawyer that I was referred to.

I was charged with 72 on a 55 in NY and plead guilty to a parking ticket.

I was charged with operating a hand held device in NY and plead guilty to "driving with no hands on steering wheel."

 

My favorite way is to show up in court and fight it and 99% of the time the cop won't even show up and it gets dismissed and thrown out of court

 

The aforementioned regulation became effective in May of 2011. Even then, the word may not have circulated to all concerned. Additionally I've heard that some local or city courts felt it did not apply to them since the regs specifically state that a state cannot do it.

 

Folks do tend to forget this variation. And not just by states, but by jurisdictions within states. And no, not every jurisdiction is up on what the federal laws say. Hell, some of them don't even know the laws in their own jurisdictions. I hope places like that are getting fewer as time goes on, but who knows...

Just an observation here. You are correct in that many times, for whatever reason, the cop doesn't show up. BUT you still get screwed.
You have to show up, which means you may have to take time off your work, possibly travel clear across the country to get to the court, and have all the expenses that occur with this.

I don't know about other places, or other times, but I do know that when I was on the job, if I wrote a ticket, I'd darn well better show up if subpoenaed into court. There was some judges that would nail a cop on contempt of court if they ignored a subpoena.
OTOH, I've known a certain CHP officer who would write tickets, (lots of them in fact,) where the court was El Centro, CA, in Imperial County. Since he was actually assigned to work in San Diego County, he would never show up in court in El Centro. (His supervisor would have a schidt hemorrhage over having to pay him overtime to travel to El Centro.) He got away with this for years.
You will see this type of stuff in more rural areas where jurisdictions don't necessarily make any sense when compared with the highways. In the above instance, it was just a natural part of his patrol to make a loop that came into Imperial County for about forty miles or so. And he was perfectly within his department policy and the law to write those tickets. He was only out of line about not showing up for court.

 

I've gotten it a few times. In Fla they call it PBJ,.. or Probation before judgement. Basically keep your nose clean for 12 months and its like it never happened.

I dont want to get into the merits of driving perfectly in all circumstances vs getting caught 5 - 10 over. But in all cases that I've gotten tickets,.. I hired an attorney and it usually went 1 of 2 ways,.. Dismissed or Adjudication withheld.

Hurst

 

Not true,.. I've gotten adjudication withheld twice in Fla. Both times in my personal vehicle.

Hurst

 

Exactly. The lawyer I use here in Fla was a circuit court judge,.. knows everyone and anyone to help you out of what ever mess you got yourself into. Not cheap.

Hurst

 

Right. Many years ago, I went to a ticket clinic and gave them $75. Two weeks later, they called me and said come get your money back. Our secretary didn't notice it was a CDL.

 

In Texas you can still get deferred with a CDL, but you have to hire a traffic attorney. A regular judge can't grant it, but if the attorney drags it up to District those judges have the authority. I had a 16mph over ticket that was deferred in 2011, was on my bike and he lasered me right when the limit dropped from 70 to 55 :-/