Receiving a speeding ticket can be a minor situation that requires only the payment of a fine. If you receive multiple speeding tickets or a speeding ticket for going far in excess of the speed limit, there are potential serious consequences. To start with, you could lose your driver's license. You may have problems getting car insurance or your … [Read more...]
Avoiding Traffic Tickets – Part II
Fighting the Speeding Ticket If you receive a speeding ticket, you should plead not guilty and ask for a trial. In some situations the prosecutors will plea bargain the matter and agree to give you a lesser ticket that involves less points on your license and a smaller fine. This is usually a good approach. Insurance companies often raise the … [Read more...]
Avoiding Speeding Tickets – Part I
Police officers have a job. Part of that job is to enforce traffic regulations. However, there is a financial incentive for municipalities to enforce traffic regulations. People who receive traffic tickets must pay fines. The fines create income for the municipalities. Speeding Tickets More than half of all of the traffic tickets given by police … [Read more...]
Vehicle Searches Incident to Arrest
When can police officers search a vehicle? When they are arresting the occupant of the vehicle. In 1981, the United States Supreme Court in the case of New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454, stated "when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the … [Read more...]
When the Traffic Court System Impedes Justice
Many people feel that the traffic court system is designed to maximize municipal profits by discouraging ticket recipients from challenging those tickets. Nowhere has this policy been made more official than in the Indianapolis traffic courtroom of Judge William Young, whose alleged conduct has brought a class action lawsuit upon him. The suit … [Read more...]
