traffic ticket
2006-07-06 12:27:45 · 5 answers · asked by tajdar m 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Go to a payphone & call your local PD & ASK THEM! They'll tell you if you have outstanding warrants & then they'll ask where you are, that's when you run out of time & the phone hangs up on you & you are out of change...Damn...now you gotta call a lawyer!
2006-07-06 13:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's a local small-town ticket and the cops haven't shown up at your house yet, then you probably don't have one - at least not today. In bigger towns, they don't even bother serving bench warrants because so many people have them - they just wait until you do something that requires the assistance of a police officer.
You could always just walk up to a cop, hand him/her your driver's license, and ask if you have any warrants. If they arrest you, then at least you'll know.
If you decide to go to the court clerk's office to find out and you don't want to be arrested on the way out, bring bond money regardless of whether you have a warrant. If I remember correctly (and it's been a while), the bond will prevent the issuance of a warrant and retract it if it already exists. But you still have to deal with the traffic ticket at some point. I'm assuming that the warrant you're worried about is for "failing to appear." If so, don't forget that you can still fight the ticket - failing to appear does not mean you plead guilty to the ticket.
2006-07-06 19:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by TrippingJudy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you suspect that you have a warrant, then you must have broken some kind of law; the average person does not just sit around wondering if the cops are looking for them.
If I were you, I would know the crime I had commited and based on that do 1 of 2 things. One, go to the police station with money to pay a fine (ticket) and avoid arrest. Two, if it is a serious crime, get an atty and they will go over your case with you and will tell you to turn yourself in and in some cases will accompany you there and will try to get you a same day bail hearing if possible.
2006-07-06 20:07:39 · answer #3 · answered by nativeamerican1968 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the court clerk in the jurisdiction where the ticket was issued. If you failed to show for a hearing, it's almost a certainty that there is a bench warrant with your name on it, though.
2006-07-06 19:32:46 · answer #4 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the sate you reside in offers on line court dockets, (which many do). The state I reside in offers a casenet service and all you have to do is a litigant name search, then you select the case, and warrant information is kept under the docket entries tab.
2006-07-07 00:33:53 · answer #5 · answered by dannyl410 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋