Wife got caught in speeding sting on I-40 at Durham
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Nice racket the attorneys, courts, town, counties have going on.
They get a nice payday for "keeping us safe" and helping us drivers out with the courts, which will have mercy upon us
the only person that loses anything monetarily is the vile criminal who dared drive 9 miles or more over the posted speed limit
but those criminals will have hopefully learned an important life lesson for a nominal price
While I will agree that the state makes a killing on court costs (and they have roughly doubled in the past 10 years) attorneys do not make a killing on traffic tickets. Your average profit on a traffic ticket in Durham or Wake county is around 40 bucks. There is soo much competition for traffic business today that the price has been pushed down. Most attys look at traffic tickets as a way to develop a relationship with a client that can then lead to actual profitable representation.IE's do vary from county to county- Wake does not give them while Orange and Durham do. All have different rules/requirements. Every county makes it extremely accessible for the every day citizen to handle the case on their own without the help of an atty and to get a good result doing so.
I've often wondered how lawyers make money doing tickets. I figured you had to do multiple tickets a day to have a chance at all.
That's exactly what I was going to say -- they can reschedule court dates so that they can take care of many of them at one time. I think their average fee over and above court costs tends to be around $100 or so for something like a simple moving violation.
What a great idea -- enhance revenue by fining more speeders. Just as the lottery is essentially a tax on ignorance, fining speeders is a tax on overconfident stupidity. Bring it on!
That's exactly what I was going to say -- they can reschedule court dates so that they can take care of many of them at one time. I think their average fee over and above court costs tends to be around $100 or so for something like a simple moving violation.
Again- the average profit on a speeding ticket is around 40 bucks. You also will not always be able to handle a ticket on the first setting so you may have to go 2-3 times to make that 40 bucks. You do see some bigger firms come into court with 10 or more files at a time but that is unusual. You can make decent money on more serious charges (DWLR/DWI) but getting that business is tough. Very competitive.
Just so you understand where that comes from:court costs: 190running record: 8 typical fine: 25adds up to 223 and most solicitations for speeding tickets right now are between 265-275
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