Re: Need Advice for Ticket

[John Kiekhaefer <jonnk@execpc.com>]

It depends on the locality.  In Milwaukee County (WI), if you hire a lawyer, you
can usually get the ticket negotiated to a lower speed with fewer license points
lost in exchange for a stiffer fine.  This is because of problems they have in
collecting fines in a major metropolitan area.  The courts are willing to trade a
points for money.  Of course you then have to pay the lawyer $50-100 as well.
Actually I have had a friend who got picked up twice in two weeks doing 55mph in
35mph zones.  Believe it or not, his lawyer  got both reduced to "failing to
signal when changing lanes" but he paid twice the fine (I believe his overall
costs came to about $600.).  What a system!
John Kiekhaefer

VWGTi@aol.com wrote:

> OK---this isn't for me...(knocking on wood)
>
> My sister today got nailed for a ticket 59 in a 35.
>
> The road is a back road outside of town with no clear Marking of the speed
> limit where she got on at till where they pulled her over.  The speed limit
> prior to that point is marked before the intersection at 45mph.  Also she
> swears that she was doing 50 on the road and not 60.  They used that VASCAR
> system measuring a distance of only .034 miles on a valley part of the road
> that goes down then back up in between the lines.  Now I'm not trying to make
> it seem like she didnt deserve the ticket.  She was speeding.  Just want to
> see if she can fight this to get this reduced.  The fine was $151 which is a
> lot for her cause she's still in high school.  She is going to get about 4
> points for this too.  Is there anything she can do?  Location of the incident
> was Hamburg, PA.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff