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y2kMgrad
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Sparty2QP said...
I had been pulled over 10-15 times in the 20 years I've been driving. Everytime I have been pulled over, I have known exactly why and knew I was guilty, so I payed the fine. The exception was 10 days ago today. I was turning right on a state road onto US-131 in northern Michigan. I turned right onto 131 and a cop appeared behind me. I pulled over to let him by and he pulled up behind me. I was shocked. He asked me if I knew why I was being pulled over. I said that I had no idea. He said that I did not stop at the stop sign before I turned right. I told him that I was sure I did. He took my info and asked if I had driven all the way up there from East Lansing that day. I said yes and he went back to his car.
He gave me a ticket and I said "Sir, I am confident that I stopped and I dont agree with this ticket" He said "If you would like to contest the ticket, call the court number on the ticket in 10 days and you can setup a court date."
I called the court on Friday because 10 days would be tomorrow. The person on the phone said that I had 10 days to appear and resolve the issue or I would be in default so my options were to pay the ticket to avoid default or be there within the hour which given that it was a 2.5 hour drive for me was impossible. So I went online and had to pay the fine for a ticket I know I was not guilty of. In fact, it was so bad that I went back and took pictures of the site from exactly where the cop was sitting to prove he could not have seen my tires to gauge if I had stopped or not. I KNOW I stopped.
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Rodeo Burger said...
You can't beat the house, they play with a stacked deck, and lying isn't frowned upon, even when proven.
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Sparty2QP said...
I had a perfectly clean record until recently so a lot of getting pulled over was when I was younger. There was also the easter weekend that I got pulled over 3 times in the same weekend. I had a car with tinted windows and got pulled over on 96 by that cop that always sits near Portland. He pulled me over and gave me a ticket for the tint. I asked him if it was a "repair and report" or what the situation was. He said "You don't have to fix it. It is just a fine. But it will remain illegal and you can continue to get tickets for it."
I setup an appointment with the place that did it to get it fixed the next weekend (weekend after Easter). So I have my ticket and am on my way back home. The same exact cop pulled me over on my way back to campus and gave me another "fine". I told him I had an appointment the following weekend and he said that I had better hope he wasn't on patrol when I went back to GR the following weekend. So I pay the fines and later get a letter in the mail from the Secretary of State telling me that I recently had 8 points added to my license. Each ticket he wrote me was not for tint, but rather a 4 point ticket for "Obstructed View". I got pulled over on campus that same trip for tint and when I explained my situation to the officer and that I had already received two tickets that weekend for the tint and that I could bring the car by the following Monday to show it repaired to him, he let me go. Hindsight it was probably because he saw the two 4 point tickets and felt bad for me, but either way, he let me off.
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manofthewild07 said...
From what I've heard from a friend, who is a new deputy, a lot of those court dates are pointless. Usually the officer will win just by showing up.
They aren't pointless. Sure, the cop is likely to win, but if you're honest, admit your mistake and ask for a lesser penalty, the judge will usually go easy on you. I had that happen recently on a ticket I got for running a red light. The cop lowered the ticket to "failure to yield" because of my honesty. He even said me to me, "Your candor is a breath of fresh air."
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OldOneEye said...
I know it's a Freep story.
LANSING -- When Nancy Prins sent the Michigan State Police a Freedom of Information Act request in July 2008, asking for police video of her May traffic stop, she was told it was not available because the department only keeps such videos for 30 days.
A few months later, when the seat belt case involving Prins and her passenger came to trial in Ionia County, state police introduced the video of the traffic stop as evidence.
So, Prins sued State Police for violating the state FOIA law. She lost her case in circuit court, but won on appeal.
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Just got pulled over