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Where it was posted no right on red. The cop was very nice and said I should go to court and talk to the prosecutor. Although he didn't say so I suspect he was telling me I may be able to get it changed to an offense that does not carry points. Has any done this? How does this work?
Go to court... the prosecutor will speak to everyone before going in front of the judge... generally speaking, if you don't have a bad offense or bad driving history, they'll offer you a careless driving type plea... it'll be 0 points so you'll save on insurance but the fine is generally hefty ($400). You'll pay more cash to the courts but save money on your insurance premiums... everyone wins except the insurance company.
Go to court... the prosecutor will speak to everyone before going in front of the judge... generally speaking, if you don't have a bad offense or bad driving history, they'll offer you a careless driving type plea... it'll be 0 points so you'll save on insurance but the fine is generally hefty ($400). You'll pay more cash to the courts but save money on your insurance premiums... everyone wins except the insurance company.
I got a speeding ticket a few months back. Cop told me to go to court to get it reduced to no points, but a bigger fine. It's a way for the town to make more money.
Go to court, the prosecutor will call you up and you speak to him before the judge even comes out. He checks your record, asks you a few questions and then tells you what he will recommend to the judge. The one in the town I got my ticket in said that he has never had the judge say no with the decision. The judge comes out, calls you back up, asks if you are in agreement with what the prosecutor just told him, you say yes and then they send you to the cashier to pay your hefty fine.
For my ticket, they dropped the charge to careless driving which was a no point violation instead of the two points I would have gotten with the speeding ticket. I ended up paying a little over $400 that day.
The courtroom was overflowing the day I was there and I ended up being there for about 3 hours. The judge first spoke via video satellite with people being held at the county jail, then called up the people that had attorneys with them.
what i question is how much you think your insurance premiums are really going to go up...and what is your time worth. skipping work to show up to court, etc.
I got a speeding ticket a few months back. Cop told me to go to court to get it reduced to no points, but a bigger fine. It's a way for the town to make more money.
Go to court, the prosecutor will call you up and you speak to him before the judge even comes out. He checks your record, asks you a few questions and then tells you what he will recommend to the judge. The one in the town I got my ticket in said that he has never had the judge say no with the decision. The judge comes out, calls you back up, asks if you are in agreement with what the prosecutor just told him, you say yes and then they send you to the cashier to pay your hefty fine.
For my ticket, they dropped the charge to careless driving which was a no point violation instead of the two points I would have gotten with the speeding ticket. I ended up paying a little over $400 that day.
The courtroom was overflowing the day I was there and I ended up being there for about 3 hours. The judge first spoke via video satellite with people being held at the county jail, then called up the people that had attorneys with them.
what i question is how much you think your insurance premiums are really going to go up...and what is your time worth. skipping work to show up to court, etc.
I would prefer not to find out. I haven't had a ticket in 25 years!
When Gov Jim McG first started this "program" they let you take this 2 times in 5 years but recently,last year, I was in a courtroom and a NJ judge mentioned they only let you do this twice now, no 2 times in 5 years anymore.
IF you have any other "out" you might play your cards otherwise. BTW the insurance companies do see a charge of "unsafe driving" 0 points, IF they bother to look, but for many you can explain it away, claim you where parked, etc.
I got a speeding ticket a few months back. Cop told me to go to court to get it reduced to no points, but a bigger fine. It's a way for the town to make more money.
Go to court, the prosecutor will call you up and you speak to him before the judge even comes out. He checks your record, asks you a few questions and then tells you what he will recommend to the judge. The one in the town I got my ticket in said that he has never had the judge say no with the decision. The judge comes out, calls you back up, asks if you are in agreement with what the prosecutor just told him, you say yes and then they send you to the cashier to pay your hefty fine.
For my ticket, they dropped the charge to careless driving which was a no point violation instead of the two points I would have gotten with the speeding ticket. I ended up paying a little over $400 that day.
The courtroom was overflowing the day I was there and I ended up being there for about 3 hours. The judge first spoke via video satellite with people being held at the county jail, then called up the people that had attorneys with them.
How much over the speed limit were you going when you got nailed?
I had a similar experience with an overflowing court. The trick is to get there early, well before the assigned time.
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