Case Study: One Client's Day in Court

Circumstances:

A small percent of our clients do not get their tickets dismissed with our Trial by Written Declaration service. In this case, we ask our clients to call us as soon as they get their results.The court will allow you to have a new trial (known as a Trial De Novo), but a written request must be received by the court within 20 calendar days of the court's decision. If notified by our clients, we will process the necessary documents for a new trial on our client's behalf.

The Trial De Novo (or 'all things new') is always in person, in court. We are strictly a professional filing agency, not a law firm so we do not offer representation for our clients in court.

Our client Marvin L. unfortunately had this occur with his ticket. After we processed the Trial De Novo, the court approved the request and Marvin L. received a notice of the trial date and time.

Marvin's Observations the Day of Court

The beauty of most “Trial De Novo” cases is that clients are not crammed into a huge court room full of ticket offenders. In Marvin's case, there were only three cases total. He also observed that for those three cases, all three officers showed up.

Marvin immediately noticed that his judge appeared to be at least 10 years younger than Marvin. The judge had a Norwegian name. The officer that had issued his ticket showed up for the court date. Both the officer and Marvin L. wore a suit, with a tie, the officer was very clean-cut, with no tattoos or earrings and was a nice guy, but very young.

The first offender poorly presented his case. This offender was cited for hitchhiking on the freeway next to his truck, due to his big rig breaking down. He even presented evidence of being towed, but still lost the case. Technically he was hitchhiking and Marvin thought that maybe he was "in big trouble with a tough judge" as he puts it. The third offender left due to the officer showing up in court.

When Marvin's case was called, both the officer and Marvin were sworn in. The judge asked the officer to present his case. The officer read his entire written testimony (which Marvin had picked up a couple of days prior to his hearing).

According to Marvin, when the officer finished presenting his case, the judge asked him, “Do you have any other evidence?” The officer said no. [MORE ON TRAFFIC TICKET CASE STUDIES]

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About the Author:

Steven Miller is the author of this article on Fighting Red Light Tickets. Find more information about Beating Speeding Tickets here.