I always see traffic ticket questions come up so I decided to start the NW Traffic Ticket Thread.
Please sticky as I know there are other lawyers and will update as the resources become available from valuable contributors such as *YOU*. No more shall we have a wandering noob ask the inevitible question "I got a ticket now what!?"
Look no further.
Here is my traffic ticket advice that I will repeat till I am blue in the face:
(in this case the ticket was for $242 so replace your ticket fee in its place)
1) Just pay $242 + whatever increase in your insurance for the next 3 years (at min) AND lose a clean record (this in of itself is valuable since cops look at your record when they pull you over again and see you have a ticket on it...more likely to give you a ticket)
2) Pay $350 for an 80% chance (for me at least) to have the ticket dismissed. Cop may not show up to court..personally I never cared how the laywer did it, just the results.
Worse case scenario the ticket will be reduced since the court sympathises with the laywers and figure they gotta throw them a bone at least to show that their client got something from their services.
More than likely you can plea it out to have diversion or do some class + avoid getting a ticket on your record if you don't get a ticket in the next year or 2. If you do, then both tickets go on your record (since I always got tickets every year this wasn't an options haha)
This option is a government wins (Since you have to pay for diversion) + the laywer winning since they "won" for you. I never did this since I felt it was the least dollar/time value for me. Since you got to spend a weekend at a hospital watching crap intreviewing with patients affected by speeding..blah blah...I'd rather just take the chance to fight it (it doesn't matter if your guilty..this is the system) and risk $600 hit if I totally lost.
Ultimatly, its your choice AND TIME. Remeber that.
Thats my traffic ticket logic when I get "random taxed" for the State General Fund
Lawyer Resources:
Seattle Area-
1.
Jeannie P Mucklestone $300-$500 flat fee (been a while)
(206) 623-3343
www.mucklestone.com
2.
Jag - ($300-$375)
Matto Law Firm
119 First Ave S, Suite 500
Seattle WA 98104
253 332 4879
3.
Mitch Greene - http://www.speedinginseattle.com/
Please sticky as I know there are other lawyers and will update as the resources become available from valuable contributors such as *YOU*. No more shall we have a wandering noob ask the inevitible question "I got a ticket now what!?"
Look no further.
Here is my traffic ticket advice that I will repeat till I am blue in the face:
(in this case the ticket was for $242 so replace your ticket fee in its place)
1) Just pay $242 + whatever increase in your insurance for the next 3 years (at min) AND lose a clean record (this in of itself is valuable since cops look at your record when they pull you over again and see you have a ticket on it...more likely to give you a ticket)
2) Pay $350 for an 80% chance (for me at least) to have the ticket dismissed. Cop may not show up to court..personally I never cared how the laywer did it, just the results.
Worse case scenario the ticket will be reduced since the court sympathises with the laywers and figure they gotta throw them a bone at least to show that their client got something from their services.
More than likely you can plea it out to have diversion or do some class + avoid getting a ticket on your record if you don't get a ticket in the next year or 2. If you do, then both tickets go on your record (since I always got tickets every year this wasn't an options haha)
This option is a government wins (Since you have to pay for diversion) + the laywer winning since they "won" for you. I never did this since I felt it was the least dollar/time value for me. Since you got to spend a weekend at a hospital watching crap intreviewing with patients affected by speeding..blah blah...I'd rather just take the chance to fight it (it doesn't matter if your guilty..this is the system) and risk $600 hit if I totally lost.
Ultimatly, its your choice AND TIME. Remeber that.
Thats my traffic ticket logic when I get "random taxed" for the State General Fund
Lawyer Resources:
Seattle Area-
1.
Jeannie P Mucklestone $300-$500 flat fee (been a while)
(206) 623-3343
www.mucklestone.com
2.
Jag - ($300-$375)
Matto Law Firm
119 First Ave S, Suite 500
Seattle WA 98104
253 332 4879
3.
Mitch Greene - http://www.speedinginseattle.com/