[Hidden-tech] Requesting Assistance with contesting a ticket

[SandyWeiner]

Great two cents! Thank you'

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> On Apr 14, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
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> At Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:12:03 -0400 "Annamarie Pluhar" <annamarie at pluharconsulting.com> wrote:
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>> I've contested a ticket twice - both times in Maryland. Both times I 
>> represented myself.
>> 
>> In the first case: I was incensed because I got picked out but everyone 
>> else around me was also going above the speed limit (this was on 95 
>> between DC and Baltimore) - listening to the morning of cases I learned 
>> that the language I should use was "moving with the flow of traffic". It 
>> worked.
>> 
>> In the second I was on a deserted road on the Eastern shore mid-day and 
>> the cops who pulled me over had faked that they needed assistance. The 
>> judge was furious with them for the entrapment and let me off.
>> 
>> From that experience - others may have different views - I think your 
>> son should go to court and simply present his case. I'm not clear from 
>> what you say below but it sounds like he thought he was driving safely 
>> and correctly. I think getting lawyers involved escalates the situation.
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> I have also heard that many times the police don't expect the ticket to be 
> contested and don't show up at traffic court.  If the police officer(s) don't 
> show up, the judge will often just toss the case out.
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>> My two cents.
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>> 
>> Annamarie Pluhar
>> 
>> Pluhar Consulting
>> http://www.pluharconsulting.com
>> 802.451.1941
>> 802.579.5975 (cell)
>> 
>>> On 13 Apr 2015, at 23:30, SandyWeiner wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> I'm looking for help for my son, who got a speeding ticket in 
>>> Connecticut a few weeks back and we need to contest it. He was taught 
>>> to drive in Germany and assumed the correct course of action when 
>>> someone tailgated him even after he had slowed down was to them speed 
>>> up to let them past, in an HOV lane. We have a list of Connecticut 
>>> traffic lawyers but do not know whom to go to. Any suggestions?
>>> Many thanks!
>>> In Metta,
>>> Sandy
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