Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Things You’ll Need:
- A Calendar and the address of the ticket issuing department.
Step1
Look on the ticket and see when the date which you need to have the ticket paid by is. Write that number down on a calendar. Count backwards, a week from that date, and mark that day. This is the day you are going to write to the issuing department.
Step2
On the date marked, a week prior to the ticket being due, hand write a letter to the issuing department requesting a copy of the original parking citation.
Large city departments do not keep originals of their parking tickets. If you could imagine how many tickets are written each day, each week, each month, you would need a room the size of Pac Bell Park just to keep the tickets acrewed over a years time.
Step3
In about a week or so you will receive a letter from the issuing department saying that no copy of the original can be provided.
Step4
Upon receipt of their non-compliance with your request, hand write back to the issuing department requesting that the ticket be dismissed. The grounds for dismissal is Habeas Corpus.
If the police have no actual proof (the original citation) that you have committed a violation, they have no legal rights to charge you with such. That original parking ticket the police should have in their records department, establishes Habeas Corpus. Without it, Habeas Corpus does not exist, thus you are protected by your Constitutional Rights under Article 1 Section 9.
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Comments
Meri said
on 6/19/2008 I suppose it is worth a try...
marchisi said
on 6/19/2008 This did not work for me. I followed the instructions carefully and was sent a copy of the original ticket. Do not try this method.
marchisi said
on 6/19/2008 This did not work. I was sent a copy of the ticket.