Comments on: How to Fight a traffic ticket

on 6/29/2008 Good advice......Mary

on 6/28/2008 Thank you for these.

on 6/28/2008 These are great tips. Thank you.

on 6/28/2008 Good advice and good luck!! (smile)

on 6/27/2008 Guess we all need to know these things...just in case:)

on 6/27/2008 In NC all you have to do is pay an attorney 90-100 and they go to court for you and e it discharged. I assume part of that money goes to the court.

on 6/26/2008 thank you - *****

on 6/26/2008 I go through this every morning and evening, great tips!

on 6/26/2008 cool

on 6/26/2008 Good suggestions. It happened to me once. Hope it never does again.

on 6/25/2008 It's worth a shot to try and fight it! Maybe the officer won't show, is so true!

on 6/25/2008 Interesting article.

on 6/23/2008 Great article, but I am too chicken to fight a speeding ticket. Actually, I am too chicken to get a speeding ticket.

on 6/23/2008 the only down side is court costs are sometimes more than the ticket itself!! Nice article though

on 4/29/2008 By all means, be civil but don't admit that you knew you were speeding--cops love to tell judges that drivers were aware that they were breaking the law!The ticket itself generally should have a court date, including time and date, on its face. The court address and address for correspondence is always on either the front or back of the ticket--you have to have proper notice for the citation to be valid. If you go to court on this date or send a letter (this is called entering a plea of not guilty)telling the court that you wish to plead not guilty, you should ask for a pretrial conference with the prosecutor. The DA or city attorney will often make a proposal once he or she knows the facts of your case which, if approved by the judge, this "pretrial disposition" will settle your case and (perhaps) save you dollars (in my court, traffic tickets started at $75, court assessments and costs