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Day in court missed :(

Dr.Manhattan

Dr.Manhattan

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Looking for some advice here guys. I had to fight a traffic ticket in court on the 24th, I however for some reason thought it was the 29th :-( ( wrote it down wrong, been over 6 months since the conviction, and with school, ***** been hectic ). I had a great defense and everything, so this is such a horrible loss.

Anyway, asking to see what I can do from here. I was going to fight this ticket myself, but at this point is it possible to call up a paralegal and get my chance in court again instead of being instantly found guilty ?

Thanks.
 
**** the paralegal. depending on where you got charged go to the courthouse and file an appeal to have your case re-opened because you were not there and were convicted by default...

This is an example of the Toronto form, it should be similar just about everywhere

http://www.toronto.ca/court_services/forms/request_reopening.pdf

If you want a good excuse, Jan 24th was bitter cold, just tell em your battery died preventing you from making it. There were countless people with dead batteries these past couple weeks.
 
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Dr.Manhattan said:
Looking for some advice here guys. I had to fight a traffic ticket in court on the 24th, I however for some reason thought it was the 29th :-( ( wrote it down wrong, been over 6 months since the conviction, and with school, ***** been hectic ). I had a great defense and everything, so this is such a horrible loss.

Anyway, asking to see what I can do from here. I was going to fight this ticket myself, but at this point is it possible to call up a paralegal and get my chance in court again instead of being instantly found guilty ?

Thanks.
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If it's been six months do you know what happened? Maybe the cop didn't show up and the whole thing got flushed.
 
nobbie48 said:
If it's been six months do you know what happened? Maybe the cop didn't show up and the whole thing got flushed.
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Not for traffice tickets... he'll get charged still for not showing up himself
Yea, file an appeal and give them a good reason why you missed the 24th court date.
 
Has it been 6 months since the ticket or conviction?? If its 6 months since a conviction how the hell did you just remember about it now?? You need to get you facts straight...if you don't even know that I don't even wanna know what type of defense you had planned
 
LoneRonin said:
**** ...

This is an example of the Toronto form, it should be similar just about everywhere

http://www.toronto.ca/court_services/forms/request_reopening.pdf

If you want a good excuse, Jan 24th was bitter cold, just tell em your battery died preventing you from making it. There were countless people with dead batteries these past couple weeks.
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There ya go, lie under oath!

How about some accountability, instead of lying to open a case costing more tax dollars?
 
murf said:
There ya go, lie under oath!

How about some accountability, instead of lying to open a case costing more tax dollars?
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Rather adversarially stated, but essentially correct. Uttering false statements to a court is not the way you want to go. Spin is one thing. Lies are another, altogether.
 
I had the exact same thing happen once, went to defend, wrote down wrong day. This was about 10 years ago so my memory is a bit hazy, but because I was convicted, I only had a day or two to pay the fine, which I didn't because of the mistake. I know I ended up with a court ordered suspended drivers licence and had to pay over $100 on top of the fine to have my licence reinstated. Find out if you're still able to ride/drive legally.
 
Thanks for the advice guys. Went and got it appealed, set for March, better make this one lol.
 
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