If a cop gives you a traffic citation and the court date on the ticket is a holiday, will it get dismissed?
138493
No.  It will not be dismissed.  You go to court on Tuesday morning and get it sorted out.  If you don't, the court could suspend your driver's license for failure to appear.  When you are in court, you can ask the judge to dismiss the ticket.
941322
Sometimes they work at night.\nIt's not always obvious.\nAs long as the sign is there, without a time qualifier (eg "8AM to 5 PM), you can get a ticket for not driving the reduced speed.
726061
Yes if it is a legal holiday.
606224
always fight traffic violations. chances are the issuing cop wont show up & it'll get dismissed. worse case is that you get the same fine you would've anyway. there are no extra charges for fighting a ticket & losing. i havent paid a ticket in 12 years. i park where i want & when i want, drive in bus lanes, i drive how i want & i drive where i want. i dont drive like a maniac or a jerk. i drive safely. i mean that i dont wear seat belt if i dont want, ect. the judge needs a 2182 to take your licence unless you give it over willingly. same tactic as searching your car. they say all kinds of nonsense & try to scare me into submission but after being punked too many times, i learned the law & use it to punk them right back.
466278
You sure you have a warrant in the first place?  Minor violations like those are usually handled just by having DMV suspend your license until you take care of them.  \n\nEven if you have a warrant, I can't imagine it's not going to be citable...meaning the cops could just give you a ticket for it and call it good, then you'd have a new appearance date for court and the warrant is gone.\n\nBut again - I'd be surprised if you even have one, and I'd be even more surprised if the cops cared enough to come look you up, no matter who rats you out...this should be a really minor warrant, unless they take those things *awfully* serious up there in Tahoe.\n\nI'll contact you off-line regarding some other information.
569485
If you read the back of the ticket you will see that you had 15 days in which to pay voluntarily which was even a reduced fine. Now it's too late, you must attend or you won't have an opportunity to fight it. If you don't want to fight it the court will make a ruling that you have to pay and if you don't you won't be allowed to renew your drivers license. My pet peeve is when people ask these questions they don't say what country or state they are in so you may not be getting a correct answer from ANYONE on this. Please just go to court-play it safe! And since you will be there anyway-just contest it-believe me-it's FUN and you have more than an 80 percent chance of winning as the cops rarely show up due to rotation on their shift or they are usually too busy or needed elsewhere. If the cop doesn't show but you do -you're walking out of there with all your money.
581197
I believe the process may be different from state to state. For example, if somebody driving a car with tags from Alberta (Canada) and gets pulled over and is cited by the Florida Highway Patrol for speeding, it's less than likely that the issue will be pursued after the court summons is sent from Florida to Alberta, which is quite a distance, around 3,500 miles. Conversely, if somebody from Montreal is pulled over from the New York Highway Patrol on I-87 (which is only about an hour's drive away), I've read somewhere that certain border states have treaties with border provinces to pursue the offender. \n\nPersonally, I had such an experience, and here's how it went down:\n\nI was living in a Southern state (say, maybe immediately north of South Carolina) and was driving to Montreal, Quebec, to visit some friends. Despite my radar detector use, a Pennsylvania State trooper, using instant-on radar (which pretty much renders your radar detector useless), nabbed me at 87 MPH in a 65 MPH zone. At the time, I had just obtained my driver's license from the afore-mentioned southern state, but I still also had my driver's licence from Quebec as it hadn't expired yet. On a whim, I gave the trooper my Canadian driver's licence, and he used that info to ticket me for $230. The trooper was actually pretty cool about it by telling me that "...if I didn't pay, they weren't gonna come chasing me all the way up there." Well, having little money (and no scrupules), I didn't pay the ticket, which was sent to my Dad's address in Canada. Six months later, an arrest warrant in my name was sent to my Dad's place, which was in effect for 24 months. For obvious reasons, I stayed the hell away from PA during that time, the arrest warrant expired, and my speeding ticket erased from the records of the PA State Police. Actually, I still kinda tighten up my PC muscles as I travel through PA to this day. Please don't tell on me! :)
327519
Every time you get a ticket, the different offenses will translate into different points. I believe after 12 pts, you get your license taken away??
852953
Even if you did try to fight the ticket on the basis of a box not being checked, you would lose.  This is just an administrative mistake on the citation and doesn't change anything.  All that needs to be done is a quick admendment to the ticket and it would be correct.  Cops are human too, and they will make mistakes.  There are literally hundreds of forms that cops have to deal with everyday.  The fact that a box wasn't checked doesn't change the fact of the violation.
247663
no. i think at the end of the day you get fined, then a warning and eventually can get arrested.
768698
The tickets have already been issued, so the statute of limitations no longer applies. After a certain period of time (usually 60-90 days after the court date), the unpaid fines may turn into arrest warrants. If they do, the statute of limitations no longer applies.\n\nIf you failed to show up to court, you could have had a Failure to Appear warrant issued for you. If the warrant was issued, the statue of limitations no longer applies.\n\nThe statute of limitations only limits the amount of time the government has to "initiate prosecution". It does not limit the amount of time the government has to arrest you. Once a warrant (or ticket) has  been issued, the government has initiated prosecution. Once that has been done, it will be there until you are either arrested or die.
729246
My friend got a reckless driving ticket and said you only have to go to court if you want to contest the ticket. You can chance that the cop won't show up but if he/she does then you'll still have to pay the ticket plus you'll have to pay the court fees. Despite going with the flow of traffic, the cop still had the right to give you a ticket. Just pay the ticket and go to traffic school and you'll be fine.
1071745
Call the Clerk of the Court in the county where your hearing is scheduled.  Just call 411 and ask the operator for the number to the Whatever County Circuit Court Clerk's Office.  Have your citation in hand as the clerk will need the citation number.  Ask them to reschedule you because you cannot get off work that day or whatever.  That's how it's done.  Maybe they'll let you reschedule, maybe they won't.  If they don't, make sure you go or you'll have a warrant issued for your arrest.\n\nGood luck!\n\nDaniel\niPowerGRFX Web Designers\nhttp://www.ipowergrfx.com\nhttp://www.publicadjuster.com
603329
No. depends on how bad your driving record is.  Obviously, you probably had multiple tickets & hadn't paid them.
288134
He may be able to try, but if he does you can challenge the ticket in court.  I can't see any possibility of that holding up in court with no proof other than an off duty deputies week old memory.  If you have any questions about how to challenge the ticket, you can normally talk with the police station that issued the ticket or your local courthouse.  You probably won't even need a lawyer from the sounds of this.
260297
You have a 50-50 chance if you just show up for court, because most likely the officer who wrote the ticket won't.  Another route is to request the radar gun's accuracy record (legaly the police have to send you a copy of the radar gun which "caught you").  If there have been problems or many occurences for radar gun repair, then I would guess the judge would dismiss the case.
925488
Go to traffic court.  The officer writing the ticket just may be out sick that day.  (it happen to me).  If so, your ticket will be thrown out.  If all else fails; plead nolo  or no contest, explain that it's your first ticket and ask the judge to throw it out or reduce it. (This has worked for me also. The offense: driving without a current tag -- I forgot!)