i live on long island , NY in the Nassau county and i was issued a ticket yesterday and the officer must of not written hard enugh b/c when you look at the ticket it looks blank i dont know what the violation code is, i cant see my name or car or license plate on it all i see is court adress he wrote? what do i do should i bring this to precint and see what the officers over there say?
2007-12-18 02:48:44 · 8 answers · asked by cory 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Your copy may be hard to read, but you can be assured the officer's copy is clear.
If the ticket was explained to you, you are still under an obligation to appear. The actual copy you were given is just a reminder. Not getting a legible copy is not a defense, as long as the officer testifies he explained it to you.
If you plan on contesting the ticket, the court will not care that it is hard to read. All they will consider is if you were in fact speeding.
Contrary to what you may hear, this was not intentional. The carbonless copies normally get darker over time, so the officer may not have thought much about it at the time. The caronless citations also lose effectiveness after they get so old, it could be this officer just doesn't write too many tickets.
2007-12-18 03:09:39 · answer #1 · answered by trooper3316 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
From one New Yorker to another...fight the ticket.
1. Plead not guilty on the ticket and ask for a hearing. Make sure to make a copy of the ticket for your records.
2. You are fighting the ticket because it is defective. It does not contain any recognizable information.
3. By fighting the ticket, they will look at your ticket, and not being able to see anything there, they will probably throw out the ticket.
4. If they don't, you will get a court date and if the officer does not show up in court, the judge will postpone the case once. If he does not show up the second time they will dismiss the case.
2007-12-18 02:59:07 · answer #2 · answered by daddy280 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Did he not tell you why he pulled you over? I wouldn't bother wasting time trying to fight the ticket. That means taking time off work for maybe a $30 ticket. I would call up the precinct, traffic court, or whatever and ask about it.
2007-12-18 03:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mail it back to the court. This way your license doesn't get suspended for failure to answer a summons.
Depending on how you wish to plead, the court will either send you a fine or mail you a notice for a trial date.
2007-12-18 02:58:21 · answer #4 · answered by Blue2Grey 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and
For Goodness' Sake, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop speeding, YES.
Ask anybody whose paychecks depend upon revenues gained by writing falsified governmental documentation like yours was, absolutely NOT.
If your local grade-school grammar teacher is incapable of reading what was written on that docuement, then you were NOT lawfully served with anything even REMOTELY resembling a lawful summons to court, and much less to pay a fine.
Just make sure that your local grade-school grammar teacher knows that should you be later arrested for failure to appear, that he/she is going to be compelled to testify in your behalf, and do NOT allow that teacher to see the ticket number or your ID, lest he/she decide to warn the constabulary beforehand what you're up to. Just on the sly at some Open House night, or completely away from school, ask the teacher of your choice to rearead that missing stuff to you, and when they can't, simply thank them and walk away, then tell the court to summon him/her should you ever be arrested for failure to appear.
Badge-bearing bullies pull this kind of chicken-chyme trick all the time: they make a few scribbles, or whatever, and suggest a fine, which MOST PEOPLE pay, simply because they're too naïve to realize that just because you get a ticket does NOT mean you have to pay a fine.
And there he goes, ruining his until-now perfect-by-me reputation for honesty. Trooper Blah Blah Blah has actually deigned to disburse a dose of dishonesty.
The court does not care one WHIT what might or might not have been explained to you out loud at the time of a summons, only exactly what YOU recieved in writing when you recieved your summons.
Another chichen-chyme trick that badge-bearing bullies like to use quite often is to scribble the location of the court to appear in, and then tell you to go to Clatsop County Courthouse instead of the Columbia County court that it was going to be filed into.
THAT, is how I know for a fact that courts DO care whether or not a ticket is 100% legible.
2007-12-18 03:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by Robert G 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No. Plead not guilty and bring the ticket to court. Tell the judge you are pleading not guilty because you don't even know what you are charged with.
2007-12-18 02:54:46 · answer #6 · answered by Joe Angus 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
NO!!!!!!!. Ask for a hearing. If it is unreadable then your ticket should be dismissed!
2007-12-18 04:06:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can call them the precinct up.
2007-12-18 02:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋