Posted: 5/14/2006 11:29:06 AM EDT
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Is going to a traffic attorney an effective strategy in Fulton county? In some areas of the country (South Florida, for instance), you can pay a traffic attorney ~$150-200 and it's basically guaranteed no points, no traffic school. This seems to be primarily due to the courts being occupied with more important cases. How does it work here? If the attorney is the way to go, any recommendations? BTW, no previous tickets/points. |
That sounds more like it. I remember when anything over 20 was considered wreckless driving/endangerment and required a ride to the house. Is that still true if you ticket that high? |
| I got popped about 5 years ago by the GSP. I was told that I was going 91 in a 55 zone, but had i been going that fast, I would have ran over the Mercedes and Mazda RX-8 that were accelerating away from me, and I was in a pack of cars heading for the hospital where my mother was after a heart attack. I took a lawyer, but i was given the choice of a moderate fine and points or high fine and no points...............295 dollars later and no points I walked away determined never to give Fulton Co another damned dime.......... |
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I got zapped in Gwinnett 3 years ago, I was passing this sl0w grandma who was holding up the entire right lane. Unluckily for me, I got zapped while passing (20 over).  Walk to the prosecutor, tell him/her that you plan on pleading nolo contendere, but only if they are going to believe you who say that it was only 10 miles over, and you demand that they reduce the fines (in a good, respective way, of course) Else...you demand a fair JURY trial.  It worked for me 
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| Bill_Z, if you are doing 30 or more over they can impound the car IIRC. Three yaers ago, I got a ticket for doing 87 on 285, and I was being passed. It was in Cobb, and they were only pulling over sports cars. There was a Mustang, Camaro, Corvette, and a BMW on the side of the road when I pulled over. Being 20 at the time, the penalty was a mandatory 6-month suspended license. The Cobb Solicitor kept asking for continuances so that I would turn 21 and keep my license. The fine was $500. |
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75 on 285 is about traffic flow depending on time of day. Sounds like bad luck. A friend got popped for 92 in a 45. He was in a pickup pulling a bass boat! The judge decided he could do without driving for 2 years (wasn't this guy's first ticket). I think it was Fulton Co. as well. Good luck with the nolo. |
Thats funny, when I was at Tech, I got pulled over in Clayton county for 35 over the speed limit. I was 20 at the time soon to turn 21, actually I was 21 at the time of the court date but the judge told me it goes on when you received the ticket. I ended up getting out of the whole thing, just a small court fee and a small fine but I shitted bricks for over 3 months. |
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Speaking of 75 on 285 did you guys ever see the video those GSU students made? A group of students actually got together and rode side by side on 285 doing 55 mph. They completely blocked the interstate. People were passing them in the emergency lanes. It made the national news about 2 months ago. Good stuff. JS2071 |
 Hee-larious stuff, there, and illegal under section 40-6-40d, too - speed limit or not.
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| This post is a classic in the making. I agree often people get tickets thats are somewhat questionable. But being targeted for you vehicle is on the absurd side. Chances are if you got a ticket on the interstate it was a laser, not a radar, ticket. I have personally checked a vehicles speed at a distance of over 2500 feet, at that distance you can tell the type of vehicle, only the color for the most part, other than a vague description, ie sedan, truck etc., and my favorite is the racial profiling complaint when I check your speed on laser at 1000 feet away at 0200 hours in the am. |
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Not to be mean or disrespectful, but a ticket for 75 on 285 must have actually been a 90MPH+ violation or some other wreckless action, cutting people off, illegal lane change, swerving, etc... to even be singled out on the 'stupid loop'. Any judge with any common sense is going to understand/think this and is going to take into consideration that the officer already cut the missus a break. Of course that's only conjecture and opinion on my part, but I do zip throgh there two to four times a night in a huge red truck with twin trailers, kind of a hard target to ignore. |
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No, she was actually doing about 75. She would tell me is she had been speeding, because I certainly don't think that most Interstate speed limits are reasonably high, so no flak from me for the ticket. She says that she thinks the issue was that the cop was also pissed off at some idiots blocking traffic, and he seemed kind of young ("fresh out of the Academy") and immature. I wish law enforcement had more latitude in ticketing slow drivers on the highway. These people, plus ones keeping 50 meter following intervals, just provide that much more incentive to speed when there is a gap among them. Not to mention the fact that the stop-and-go traffic they encourage is both unsafe and fuel-inefficient. - Edited to add that she passed the cop as she was passing the guy holding up traffic. He was immediately behind that vehicle. |