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16 Yr old Speeding Ticket 90 in a 65.

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Tripp1117

Junior Member
I was traveling on I-20 running about 80 cause i thought the speed limit was 70. we started going up a hill and i had to give it more gas to make it up the hill. as we got to the hill i didnt notice that I had gotten up to 90. When I got pulled over the policeman said he clocked me doing 90 in a 65. I have to go to Juvenile court next friday. This is my first ticket. What do you think will happen? Do you think if i plea that i have a job my parents work late, i've never gotten in trouble, and that I'm a good kid that I could come out of this without a license suspension? Please HELP!!
 


seniorjudge

Senior Member
Tripp1117 said:
I was traveling on I-20 running about 80 cause i thought the speed limit was 70. we started going up a hill and i had to give it more gas to make it up the hill. as we got to the hill i didnt notice that I had gotten up to 90. When I got pulled over the policeman said he clocked me doing 90 in a 65. I have to go to Juvenile court next friday. This is my first ticket. What do you think will happen? Do you think if i plea that i have a job my parents work late, i've never gotten in trouble, and that I'm a good kid that I could come out of this without a license suspension? Please HELP!!
Q: What do you think will happen?


A: Let us hope and pray you lose your license and stay off the road forever. Reason?: "I was traveling on I-20 running about 80 cause i thought the speed limit was 70. we started going up a hill and i had to give it more gas to make it up the hill. as we got to the hill i didnt notice that I had gotten up to 90."




Standard answer

Here are some hints on appearing in court:

Dress professionally in clean clothes.

Do not wear message shirts.

Don't chew gum, smoke, or eat. (Smokers...pot or tobacco...literally stink. Remember that before you head for court.)

Bathe and wash your hair.

Do not bring small children or your friends.

Go to court beforehand some day before you actually have to go to watch how things go.

Speak politely and deferentially. If you argue or dispute something, do it professionally and without emotion.

Ask the court clerk who you talk to about a diversion (meaning you want to plead to a different, lesser charge), if applicable in your situation. Ask about traffic school and that the ticket not go on your record, if applicable. Ask also about getting a hardship driving permit, if applicable.

From marbol:

“Judge...

You forgot the one thing that I've seen that seems to frizz up most judges these days:

If you have a cell phone, make DAMN SURE that it doesn't make ANY noise in the courtroom. This means when you are talking to the judge AND when you are simply sitting in the court room.

If you have a ‘vibrate’ position on your cell phone, MAKE sure the judge DOESN'T EVEN HEAR it VIBRATE!

Turn it off or put it in silent mode where it flashes a LED if it rings. AND DON'T even DREAM about answering it if it rings.”

(Better yet, don’t carry your cell phone into the courtroom.)


Here are five stories that criminal court judges hear the most (and I suggest you do not use them or variations of them):

1. I’ve been saved! (This is not religion specific; folks from all kinds of religious backgrounds use this one.)

2. My girlfriend/mother/sister/daughter is pregnant/sick/dying/dead/crippled and needs my help.

3. I’ve got a job in [name a state five hundred miles away].

4. This is the first time I ever did this.

5. You’ve got the wrong guy. (A variation of this one is the phantom defendant story: “It wasn’t me driving, it was a hitchhiker I picked up. He wrecked the car, drug me behind the wheel then took off.” Or, another variation: “I was forced into it by a bad guy!”)

https://forum.freeadvice.com/showthread.php?p=854687#post854687

Public defender’s advice

http://newyork.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/70300494.html


Other people may give you other advice; stand by.
 

IAAL-10

Junior Member
A Day In The Life

Tripp1117 said:
i didnt notice that I had gotten up to 90.

My response:

I read the news today oh, boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laughand
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed

IAAL
 

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