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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 03/14/18> There may not be a trial after all
Ha... not worth the effort, just let 'im go. That would have been fun to see if it was carried out, but that's totally ... expected, I'd say? I feel around NYC they do a slightly better job with documentation, it seems more difficult to squirm out of these things. Nicely done on his part though. You gotta hold them accountable.
The courts try and string you out if you want to fight the ticket, they know that most people won't miss 2 or 3 half days of work to make the appearance hearing, then the pre-trial conference and finally the trial. So they price the tickets at a level that it stings your wallet but you will pay without a fight. When he filed the motion for a show cause hearing on why he should even appear since no charges had been filed it got their attention pretty quickly. He took the offensive position rather than a defensive one, and that had to scare them in the DA's office.
I never paid attention to just how many tickets that little court was running through there until I sat down to write this dose, the numbers of tickets and dollars are astounding for a little precinct JP court.
The devil is in the details, NYC may be better, but until you actually look who knows for sure?
That's true. It's certainly worth a look. My observation is based on one data point: me being ticketed for double-parking and trying to fight it with a really poor reason (I was wrong and in violation of that law. doh...). Granted they had a whole online process to make it easy to send, and easy to swat away.