The Top 3 Traffic Ticket Errors in North Carolina

There are thousands of traffic tickets handled every day in North Carolina. Most of those are handled by the defendants themselves without the benefits of an attorney’s advice. When they are handled that way – what we call pro se in this business, which is to say without an attorney or for yourself – it’s very easy to mess things up. Here are (what I think to be) the Top Traffic Ticket Errors in North Carolina:

3. Pleading to something you don’t understand: People often have no idea what is best for their driving record/insurance points if they don’t have the proper training. I often hear people say, “Just use a PJC! That’s what I did.” In many cases, that’s your third best option, meaning there are two other superior ones, and in some cases, it’s worse than just pleading guilty. Before you decide to plead guilty to something, know the consequences.
4. Paying it off: This is similar to Number 3. When you pay a ticket off you are pleading guilty to your original charge! Do you know the consequences of that? It’s almost never a good idea to do that. You should not make that decision without knowing what will happen as a result.
5. Not showing up: Missing your court date for your traffic ticket is like getting shot by an arrow and thinking that if you just ignore it, that arrow will just fall out and everything will be just fine. That is never going to happen. And the longer you wait, the more things can get nasty. To use another metaphor, things can snowball and get bigger and worse as time goes on. You can get arrested, lose your license, get worse charges and eventually, possibly, go to jail, all because you missed your court date for a simple traffic ticket. This is the worst and most avoidable error in NC Traffic Tickets.

Now you know. Really, the best thing for you to do is to call and attorney and get some proper advice.

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