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11-24-2008, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northern Virginia | | | so, I'm going to jail ...maybe?
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I got a speeding ticket on Sunday on my way to church (of all things) and it's automatically a class 1 misdemeanor that could mean jail time, a suspended license and/or up to a $2500 fine. No prior offenses. Would you recommend hiring an attorney?
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11-24-2008, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Singapore | | | Hrmmm. How much were you going over?
Even in Singapore speeding isn't ticketed that badly, and we have a $500 fine for eating in public transport!
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11-24-2008, 07:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | How fast over the limit?
5-10 over I would just show up to court.
If you got a reckless and the cop got a recorded reading. Lawyer or not, you probably won't get much help with the new aggressive driver laws around the DC area. |
11-24-2008, 07:48 PM
| | ????????????? | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lexington KY | | | How fast were you going?
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11-24-2008, 07:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | That sucks. You don't really need a lawyer, on my big ticket I just called up the prosecuting attorney and said that I wanted to make a deal. He offered me less money and less points. Worked out great, but I have no idea if that would work for you.
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11-24-2008, 08:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound That sucks. You don't really need a lawyer, on my big ticket I just called up the prosecuting attorney and said that I wanted to make a deal. He offered me less money and less points. Worked out great, but I have no idea if that would work for you.
lowsound | You can plee bargan to defective tail light. the system is broken in your favor. Jail would cost the state to much money |
11-24-2008, 08:04 PM
|  | The older I get, the better I was. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Pasadena, CA | | | If it's "just" a speeding ticket, I suspect he was going VERY fast. |
11-24-2008, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EricF If it's "just" a speeding ticket, I suspect he was going VERY fast. |
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11-24-2008, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EricF If it's "just" a speeding ticket, I suspect he was going VERY fast. | Not really, around here you can get bigger tickets than that for going 30 mph over the limit. If I so much as get a speeding ticket (doesn't matter the speed), my license will be suspended for 30 days. Only because I am under 21, I have had my full license for 2 1/2 years. We have some of the strictest rules for driving in NA in Ontario.
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11-24-2008, 08:13 PM
|  | Secret Member | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Nashville, TN | | | Most municipalities don't waste their time locking up speeders. Again, how fast were you going?
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11-24-2008, 08:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sudbury, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound Not really, around here you can get bigger tickets than that for going 30 mph over the limit. If I so much as get a speeding ticket (doesn't matter the speed), my license will be suspended for 30 days. Only because I am under 21, I have had my full license for 2 1/2 years. We have some of the strictest rules for driving in NA in Ontario.
lowsound | Ya, the news laws are really strict, eh? luckily I got my speeding ticket just a few weeks prior to that. They also don't allow any alcohol tolerance with the "G" under 21 anymore. And we can't carry more than 1 passenger between 16-19. A little overboard maybe?
OP, how fast?
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11-24-2008, 08:18 PM
|  | Musical Anarchist | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sutton, MA | | This reminds me of that Arlo Guthrie movie . . .
Whatcha in for? Speedin'!!
Take the jail time!!  |
11-24-2008, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiggybass Ya, the news laws are really strict, eh? luckily I got my speeding ticket just a few weeks prior to that. They also don't allow any alcohol tolerance with the "G" under 21 anymore. And we can't carry more than 1 passenger between 16-19. A little overboard maybe?
OP, how fast? | I am just as impaired after one beer as a 35 year old is. I am 20, that means that a lot of my friends are still teenagers. I was so pumped when I turned 20, so I wouldn't be associated with the stupid things that teens do just because of my age, now they have nabbed me for another 18 months. BTW it is 21 and under, want to go slap McStupid with me?
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11-24-2008, 08:22 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Freddels This reminds me of that Arlo Guthrie movie . . .
Whatcha in for? Speedin'!!
Take the jail time!! | Nah, join the army! |
11-24-2008, 08:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | I just finished getting processed today. (fingerprints, mugshot, tattoo identification). Being stupid sucks, lessons are much better learned before the cops get involved. I go to court a week before christmas, hope I'm not spending it in there.
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11-24-2008, 08:28 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | Thursday, I went flying by a state cruiser parked on the grass.
I was probably doing just a tad over 75Mph. Some parts of this highway are 50Mph and other parts are 55.
He didn't come after me. I'm 42.
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11-24-2008, 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Freddels This reminds me of that Arlo Guthrie movie . . .
Whatcha in for? Speedin'!!
Take the jail time!! | Then when you get drafted into the military, you'll go straight to the Group W bench, with all the mother rapers, father stabbers, and father rapers.
And there on the other side...
In the middle of the other side...
Away from everything else, on the other side...
In parentheses...
Quotated...
Capitol letters...
It said:
("KID! HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I walked up to the sarge and I said "sarge, you've got a lot o' damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself. I mean.. I mean.. I MEAN! I'm sittin' here on the bench! Sittin here on the Group W bench, and you're asking me if I'm moral enough to join the army and burn women and children's houses and villages after being a litterbug!" |
11-24-2008, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sudbury, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound I am just as impaired after one beer as a 35 year old is. I am 20, that means that a lot of my friends are still teenagers. I was so pumped when I turned 20, so I wouldn't be associated with the stupid things that teens do just because of my age, now they have nabbed me for another 18 months. BTW it is 21 and under, want to go slap McStupid with me?
lowsound | I know, I'm 19 at the moment, 20 in the summer. I was looking forwards to getting my G so that I don't have to worry about getting nabbed the next morning driving home. There goes that for 31 more months. You bet I'm pretty pissed off.
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11-24-2008, 08:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | | Dude, you're not going to jail. If you were going fast enough to worry about going to jail, you wouldn't be home posting on Talkbass. |
11-24-2008, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by wilser I got a speeding ticket on Sunday on my way to church (of all things) and it's automatically a class 1 misdemeanor that could mean jail time, a suspended license and/or up to a $2500 fine. No prior offenses. Would you recommend hiring an attorney? | I doubt that you will see jail time for speeding, especially if you have no prior offenses. I would plead guilty to speeding, pay the fine, then try to get the speeding ticket off my record.
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