How to handle your own traffic ticket in 4 easy steps
Step 1. Pull your driving record so you know what you’ve got working against you. You’ll need to contact your license-issuing state’s Division of Motor Vehicles or whatever they call it where you are.
Step 2. Go to law school so you can take a few criminal and insurance law courses and see what the stuff on your driving record means and how convictions affect your insurance rates, as well as how out of state convictions may transfer. Some evidence and trial advocacy courses would come in handy, too.
Important notes about Step 2:
a) You’ll need to continue your ticket’s court date for about three years, which may be a stretching it a tad, but you can give it a try!
b) You better pay attention; there are more practicing attorneys who do not understand the ins and outs of traffic ticket and insurance law than there are that do, so make sure you get what you paid for!
Step 3. Practice law for a little bit in the county where your ticket was written so you can understand the local policy with regards to traffic ticket plea agreements and get to know the local bar so you know with whom you’re dealing and what to expect.
Important note about Step 3: In addition to getting to know the prosecutors so you know what to expect with them, it would help to get to know the local defense bar, too, in case you need some help in the form of backup or advice.
Step 4. Appear in court and negotiate the best plea available based on your driving record, your charge, local policies, and your own skill as an advocate.
Easy, huh? And it only took you a little more than three or four years and several thousand dollars! Way to save that attorney’s fee! That’ll show ’em.
…or you can just do it all in one step that won’t take 3 plus years and cost you thousands of dollars and just hire an attorney who can help you avoid excessive and needless insurance rate increases.
Whatever floats your boat.
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