What is the reason for waiving time in court is it better for me to not waiv time?
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If the officer wrote the ticket as an infraction instead of a misdemanor, then you on not entitled to a public defender in California.\n\nWaiving time simply means you are agreeing to let the court pgive you a trial date that goes beyond the trial that you hormally would be given if you exercised your right to a speed trial.  On the upside, it gives you more time to prepare and increase the chances that the officer might forget the facts or forget to show up at the trial.  Of course, those are just possibilities and it also gives the prosecution more time to prepare.\n\nNot waiving time could also have the impact.  It gives everbody less time to prepare, but the prosecution might not be ready to proceed.
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Usually a "failure to appear" warrant will not result in jail time unless you have many prior failure to appears and they can show a pattern or if the failure to appear is on a serious felony crime or a crime in witch you are out on bail. Now either way it will be better for you to turn yourself in. However do not turn yourself in on a friday as this may result in sitting in jail until monday. Also I would call the court clerk and try to reschedule an appearance before I turned my self in to show that you did make an effort. Oh yea it is also bad if the appearance is for sentencing. They really frown on ditching accountability. In addition by turning yourself in you avoid all the hassle of having your car towed away and impounded if you are pulled over while drving. Don't panic! Especially if this is a minor offense. The courts and jails are so jammed up with truly bad people they have no time or room to lock people up for minor offenses. Even if it seems really bad to you. I assume that it is minor because you don't seem to have much experience dealing with the law. I personally have been pulled over with a valid warrant and the officer just cited and released me. However I have also seen people get hauled in friday night and have to wait til the offices open up Monday morning to be released with nothing more than a new court date. Anyways good luck and stay low until Monday.
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It simply means that submitting that pleading at that time did not follow the rules of the court. If you do not understand why that is so, it would be best to call the clerk of the court or speak to a lawyer.
904736
Not necessarily. Keep going with your case. Talk to your lawyer.
141947
I used to work for a firm that had a complex computer system where notetaking and time recording took more time than actually doing the work.  Then I worked for a place that had flat fees, then if for some reason the client or the attorney got fired, it would be billed to the 10th of the hour.  That never happened.....\n\nI finally settled on a flat fee based on the time a case of the sort would normally take, taking into consideration the time periods for easiest and most difficult cases and averaging it out based on my expertise and experience and I come up with what I think is fair.  I raise prices when I think my skill is greater or the process becomes more time consuming.  Although the easy cases end up being a little expensive and the hard cases kinda cheap, it ends up balancing out.  If for some reason the work does not get completely done, I'll refund based on percentage of the case actually done.
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The real answer is that if a jury trial is not asked for within a specified time limit, it is waived.  They ask before they know if they want one or not to preserve their client's right to one.
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Absolutely normal.  The wheels of justice turn very very slowly, largely in part due to the discover process.  You are in the early stages of discovery.  This is a tedious process, especially in personal injury cases.  The questions you referenced are known as "interrogatories".  Your attorney probably filed the answers, or if he didn't, he might have made an agreement with defendant's attorney for an extension of time. In the grand scheme of things, this is not a very big deal.  Remember that there is a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes between counsel.  Discovery takes FOREVER.  For a personal injury case, you might be looking at boxes of documents that the attorney has to put together and send out.  Also, there are typically a dozen or so requests for medical records and subpoenas that have to be sent out to the hospitals in order to get your medical records.  It's a pain, and a time consuming pain at that.\n\nYour best bet would be to write him a letter and ask for a status update of your case.  Find out what discovery requests have been served, what discovery the defendants have produced, what additional depositions have been scheduled.  Tell him you understand that he has other cases and clients and that he is a busy guy, but that you want a monthly status report detailing what has been done in the last month to move the case forward, and what his next plan of action is going to be.  Ask him to place the sending of this status report on his calendar.  (Keep in mind he's going to bill you for the time it takes to write this report.)\n\nAlso, if you want to monitor what papers have been filed in your case, search for the website of your local county/circuit court.  You should be able to search by party name, or if you have any of the pleadings, the docket number.  This way, you can check for yourself to see what has been filed.\n\nYour attorney does not have an obligation to call you everytime something happens with your file.  However, this does not mean he can ignore phone calls or requests for information.  It seems like he is moving the case along.  Keep in mind that any delays might be because of conflicts in his schedule or opposing counsel's schedule, not necessarily laziness or ambivelence.  Request the status report.  If he doesn't start providing you with updates, talk to a representative of the state bar association to lodge a complaint.\n\nGood luck.
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While it varies from state to state you have a certain time in which you can legally back out of a contract without penalty to yourself.  This is done for consumer protection against an over zealous salesperson that may push you along into agreeing to the transaction.
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Some of the answers here are truly amazing. My answer is slightly different:\n\n1. The 13th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits involuntary servitude. This means that no one can force you to work for anyone else except after being convicted of a crime. So, ultimately, no matter what sort of contract you may have entered into with an employer -- whether written or oral, you cannot be "forced" to work for that employer for even one moment longer than you wish.\n\nOf course the alternative is that you may be terminated from your employment, but that is the price you pay for not being enslaved -- you are free to leave whenever you wish.\n\n2. Generally, employment contracts that are not specifically written out and agreed to, are in constant flux. That is, if you take lunch today at noon, and your employer retains you upon your return, then your employer has impliedly consented to your taking lunch at noon. If you choose 1PM tomorrow, and your employer continues to retain you, then the employer has impliedly consented to 1PM as being a reasonable lunch.\n\nIf, however, your employer tells you that you can't take lunch at any time other than noon, and you continue to work for the employer, then you have impliedly agreed to only take your lunch at noon.\n\nIf you think about the above example with respect to your question you should see that by your working overtime, you agree to work overtime, and by your refusing to work overtime, if your employer continues to pay you afterwards, then your employer has consented to your not working overtime.\n\nThe bad news, is that the next time your employer asks you to work overtime, if you refuse, and the employer terminates you, then, just as above, you have attempted to counter your employer's most recent offer of employment, and your employer can terminate you for the refusal.\n\nSo, the short version is "no," your employer cannot terminate you for refusing to work overtime, IF the employer continues to retain your services after your refusal. However, if you refuse to work overtime, and the employer terminates you immediately, then your employer can terminate you.\n\nThis all may seem very strange, but it's exactly how a court would analyze the relationship between you and your employer. \n\nGood luck.
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I'm a lawyer.  There are two issues here:  does failure to pay on time invalidate the policy and does acceptance of a late payment constitue a waiver of the insurer's remedies against you.  The answer to the first part is yes -- your late payments are a breach of the contract and the policy can be cancelled.  I have experienced this first hand.  I was late making an insurance payment the month my son was born and I nearly got saddled with over $50,000 in medical bill.  The difference between your situation and mine is that the insurance company was smart enough NOT to initially accept the payment.  (Eventually, they accepted it and granted coverage once they realized that they failed post it to the proper account).  They knew that if they accepted payment you would argue that they have agreed to continue the policy as long as they will continue accepting your money.  This is a common sense argument.  Once they take your money, EVEN AFTER IT BECAME OVERDUE, you can then argue that they have waived the remedies of your breach:  translation : they must honor the policy because they were happy to take your money, so now they must pay out on the policy.  If you are local in Florida get in touch with me.
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I got a ticket in Virginia and went to court, not to fight it, it was excuse for a couple of hours off of work.  That excuse saved me some cash though.  See I told the judge that I was guilty and did the speeding.  I told them that they caught me and that I had no excuse.  He suspended everything, but court costs ($29).  The bottom line is not to speed, especialy in a ncrazy state like Virginia.  Just go to court and say yes I did it, I have no excuse.  The people who begged and whined at the court all got very stiff penalties.\n\nThose of us who just said "I am guilty" got off with the lightest penalty.  It seems to be a big deal for someone to admit guilt now a days, and not whine and cry and say it was anything and everything else but their fault.
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Waste of time. I would LMAO at you and wonder why you didn't just go get a lawyer if you had a valid case.
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No, you already plead guilty.  Maybe if there was a technicality or something.  Ask a lawyer, they have free consultations and some will answer you on the phone.
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If you go to court plead no contest.  That way you are not admitting guilt, but you are not contesting it either.  Unless you can absolutely prove you weren't going that fast chances are the ticket won't be reduced or withdrawn.  Plus you would still have court costs of top of the fine.
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If you sue, they are going to argue in court that the time accrues.  They may even bring a more recent version of the handbook with them.  \n\nYou could try sending a demand letter stating that if you have not received all monies due and payable to you pursuant to handbook section #_____ by 00/00/06 you will file in small claims court.  If that does not work, I expect you will have a real fight on your hands.  Good luck.
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If that is really what the DA said then yes he is lying.  You are entirely entitled to view all the evidence that the People have against you, whether you have a lawyer or not.\n\nAs for the timing issue, it is not uncommon for defendants to not be given their discovery until after the arraignment.  Remember, the arraignment is simply the time when you enter a plea.  You don't need all the information at that point in time.  But you are entitled to all of the information before trial.
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It's totally up to the judge. Give a good reason and don't push it, you can lose your case for no shows.