Should I fight this ticket?

[neekah18]

Originally Posted by Guywithacause

Always fight the ticket and drag it through the system. I have contested every ticket...and even had one thrown out right off the bat because the court date was scheduled on a holiday..so it was automatically dismissed for some reason (Westchester County). When you drag it through the courts, they are always looking for ANY reason to decrease the case load. If everyone fought tickets..the whole system would be backlogged for years and they would just dismiss all tickets just for the sheer volume...and then they would think twice about writing tickets.

Please fight the ticket..no matter what excuse you have...you have a good 80% chance that it will either be dismissed outright even before the court case, dismissed at court for some reason, or decreased significantly due to some "hard luck" you have. FIGHT IT.

I WISH THEY THOUGHT LIKE THAT IN JERSEY. FIGHTING A TICKET IS LIKE FIGHTING MIKE TYSON....

[rlrl]

In 1994 I got 2 parking tickets totalling $105 for parking in a legitimate spot that suddenly had a crosswalk painted there for no apparent reason

When my neighbor saw the second ticket on my windshield he told me to fight the tickets because he heard that the nearby private school painted the crosswalk there for no apparent purpose

I went to traffic court and explained to the judge that I was told the crosswalk was suddenly painted there to nio purpose by a private school. He said to me "so you feel it was put there by improper authority, let me explain to you that the law states that you never park in a crosswalk, regardless of whether it was there before or not...". He then reduced the fines from $105 down to $30

It was worth going to court to fight them

[Guywithacause]

RLRL..good for you!

[Futcha]

You're going to lose this trial. If it says "No Standing Anytime," that means No Standing ANYTIME.

[jflores]

just tell the judge that you werent standing, that you were parked. It always gets a chuckle.

[sgc from LI]

Here is my opinion (which may or may not be of greater value than others due to the fact that I am a NYCDOT transportation engineer)-

One of the only ways to beat a "No Standing Anytime" ticket is to use the following "excuse" (it's actually the legal definition of no standing zones) -
No Standing allows for the expeditious loading and unloading of passengers and property, so if you can convince the judge that you were operating expeditiously during the unloading of groceries you may have a chance but be prepared because if the judge is having a bad day he/she will immediately say that if you were, in fact, moving expeditiously you would have been close enough to be aware of the ticket agent during the ticket writing procedure and attempted to stop him

Good luck
SGC