The good news is that every time you fight a ticket in court, it costs the municipality money. Infraction court system are designed around most people being too busy/lazy to fight a ticket.
So you fight this ticket as follows:
"No stip" meaning you do not agree to have your case heard before anyone but an actual judge. Makes it impossible for them to churn through cases.
"No waived time" meaning you have to have your case heard within the statutory time limit
And even after they hear the case, then appeal it and fight it there too. Ends up costing the state money when all is said and done. If everyone does it, the state has to start dismissing tickets because they can't calendar them all or hire more judges to oversee them.
I've had tickets dropped before in California just for emailing the department and threatening to force the issue, it's happened at least twice in two different cities
The good news is that every time you fight a ticket in court, it costs the municipality money. Infraction court system are designed around most people being too busy/lazy to fight a ticket.
So you fight this ticket as follows:
And even after they hear the case, then appeal it and fight it there too. Ends up costing the state money when all is said and done. If everyone does it, the state has to start dismissing tickets because they can't calendar them all or hire more judges to oversee them.
I've had tickets dropped before in California just for emailing the department and threatening to force the issue, it's happened at least twice in two different cities