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Re: ticket dismissal (was Re: speed traps in Austin)

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From: Joe Senner
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 00:20
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cathyf@is.rice.edu (Catherine Anne Foulston) writes:
]I got a ticket for driving without lights.  I was told it could not
]be dismissed by taking DD.  I asked if I could get it dismissed or
]something if I could show that the lights had been broken and I
]subsequently got them fixed, and the answer was that I'd have to ask
]the judge.  In other words they don't seem to be set up to do that
]as a regular procedure.  At that point I gave up and paid it -- it was
]less trouble.

it's a no win situation. the cops/judges don't necessarily know all the
laws, and the last thing they want to hear is someone telling them they're 
wrong...

-- 
Joe Senner -- joe@Rider.Cactus.Org                                 Austin, TX
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Subject: Re: ticket dismissal (was Re: speed traps in Austin)
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