How can I prevent my Massachusetts license from being suspended?

Question

I recently recieved in the mail that the RMV wants to suspend my license. Their reason being that I have 5 surchargable events in the past 3 years. Except the last time I went to court was 2 months ago because of expired license, expired inspection sticker, expired registration, and expired insurance. Sounds worse than it actually was. The judge told me that if I pay the 71 dollars in court fee's that day that he would dismiss the case for me, and I would have no charges whatsoever. With this in mind it should only be 4 events in the past three years. I'm leaving for basic training in a month and a half and this will seriously screw up my enlistment. Everytime I go to court they always just don't listen to what I have to say and punish me. What's my best chance at fighting this? Can I go to the court and ask for the communication records for that day? Anything anyone can do to help! I need this bad!

The previous thing was only counted as No inspection sticker. Although all of that was completely thrown out in court. I'm not disclosing the whole information on the case but it was dismissed. Also, I'm already in the Military in DEP. My ship date is the end of August. I can prevent my license from being suspended by doing a driving course, but I don't have the time to go through with this.

Answer 1

"How can I prevent my Massachusetts license from being suspended? I recently recieved in the mail that the RMV wants to suspend my license. Their reason being that I have 5 surchargable events in the past 3 years. Except the last time I went to court was 2 months ago because of expired license, expired inspection sticker, expired registration, and expired insurance. Sounds worse than it actually was. The judge told me that if I pay the 71 dollars in court fee's that day that he would dismiss the case for me, and I would have no charges whatsoever. With this in mind it should only be 4 events in the past three years. I'm leaving for basic training in a month and a half and this will seriously screw up my enlistment. Everytime I go to court they always just don't listen to what I have to say and punish me. What's my best chance at fighting this? Can I go to the court and ask for the communication records for that day? Anything anyone can do to help! I need this bad!"

There is no quick answer to your question, but let me say this: Do not show up at a MEPS (military processing station for enlistment) with court involvement that was not previously disclosed to your recruiter-- including the event you described about traffic violations.

Call up the RMV (good luck getting through) or go there and try to straighten it out. Bring cash to pay whatever fines they might have assessed or be prepared to show them the transcript from the court proceedings. (You can pay the district court clerk court reporter to prepare a copy for you-- but that takes time.) The judge might have entered a "docket order" so get a copy of the docket sheet from the clerk of the court. Whatever happens, make sure the RMV has settled the issue with you. And a suspended license isn't all that bad unless you actually need it in the military-- most jobs in the military don't actually require one.

If you show up at MEPS with indisclosed court involvement they will probably still accept you for enlistment, but you'll have to go through an extra processing step and you'll likely receive a "page 5" notation that says you lied to your recruiter but want to be waived in anyway. The MEPS station will also make you arrange to pay whatever outstanding fines you have-- even if they are traffic violations.

Please note: If your recruiter told you traffic tickets didn't count, then he lied. Any court involvment must be reported before you show up to MEPS.

Answer 2

Driving with expired insurance is extremely serious. If you were in an accident and you had good insurance, the other parties, yourself, your passengers, all their medical needs taken care of, damage to car repaired etc. but without insurance, the costs could bankrupt you and still not take care of all the needs of the other people.

Driving with expired license is bad, but can happen by accident if you not sure how long it good for ... 2 years 4 5 6 etc. Is the expiration date on the license?

Driving with expired licence plate is also bad ... in theory we should have some idea when it comes up for renewal ... this info should be on the paperwork we got when we got the plates renewed, but uf you are a new driver you may be ignorant of this.

Driving with expired inspection sticker depends on inspection for what (safety, pollution, etc.) and if your car would pass if inspected, for how bad this is.

The whole collection makes it sound like you do not care about safety on the highways, you not care about the lives of other people, that you are a threat to yourself and others. Very bad for your reputation.

I have been to traffic court only a few times, but I could see that the judge was not interested in listening to anyone's excuses, did not even have the ticketing officer present ... plead not guilty no difference ... seemed to me that everyone in traffic court is considered guilty unless they bring a lawyer with them to fight it.

I pled no contest because I had an arguement but I saw what happened to other people with arguments, and because I wanted minimum time effect on the judge with huge backlog of cases.

I don't see that you have much of a chance.
You have a bad record, you lose your license.

You can spend $ on seeking a lawyer to help you, or advise you. They may be able to get the communication records including what the judge said.

Or you could first go to the judge's office & check with the clerk there. It may be that the official records show the charge but not the disposition of the case.

Answer 3

You know, as soon as I saw the title, I could guess the question. The answer is, you have to clear up all issues on your old license before you can get a new one, whether in the same state or a different state. If it was really as simple as going to another state to get a license, then everyone would be doing it. I'm sure that this happened a lot in the early days of driver's licenses, but nowadays the states have an agreement about this sort of thing. Usually, you won't get a $5K ticket, you'll get a series of tickets, and if you pay them off promptly then you won't be liable for additional fines and interest. Right now, though, your best bet is to ask for a payment plan, and then stick to it.

Answer 4

I don't think you have a prayer at fighting this and your license SHOULD be suspended. If you drove without a valid license (yours was expired), without valid insurance (also expired), without valid registration (also expired), and without valid inspections sticker (expired as well), you should not be driving. There is no need to listen to what you have to say in this instance because there is no legitimate excuse for having all four of these things happen at the same time.

Answer 5

u dumb dumb easy beg and once u win just drive like u suposed 2