I attended my first traffic court today in WP. I have not had a traffic ticket in 10 years, and I got nabbed turning right by a camping cop. There was a sign that said no right turns before 8:30 AM, and I did not see it. I suspect they pull a ton of people over there to make money. That annoyed me since I was not doing anything unsafe, and why would I do an illegal turn knowingly in front of a cop! So I decided to take it to court. Dadada, dadadada da da, dadada "typewriter noises"
The people in line were sharing their sob stories. I found out the most tickets in the county are written in White Plains. I learned about the other areas to avoid and other reasons people are getting tickets (which could happen to all of us since they are so nit picky). That line was very educational for me, and will be for all of my local friends. At any rate, they reduced my fine and waived the points. I could have fought it further, but I needed to get back to work, so I am happy with the outcome.
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I got nabbed for the same kind of thing a couple months back. I rolled through a stop with no and turned right at an intersection where the only car in sight was the cop parked at least 400 yards from the corner. At least he only sighted me for not having proof of insurance.
On another note... They tend to schedule all of the cases for individual cops at one time, so, you need a bigger sample size to make the White Plains correlation...
Yeah, yeah... No, I dont' spend a lot of time in court.
-P
My cop did not show up, but they have another system of plea bargains there.
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