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Originally Posted by accordingi2ime
It was on CA 46. I was going 70 on 55mph...
If I were to get a traffic lawyer, I would have to go to the court listed on the ticket correct?
My friend told me I could finish traffic school in less than 2 hour online. I thought this would be the best choice...
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99% of the time you don't have to go to court at all. This isn't a murder trial, your attorney can show up for you without you being there. I got a ticket back in April for 90 in a 65. The attorney, who specializes in traffic tickets, was only $79 and got the ticket complete dismissed. Zero points, zero additional fines, zero schools. All I had to do was fax a copy of the ticket and pay with my CC and that was it, they handled the rest.
Your experience will be different depending on where you got the ticket though. In FL the tickets are given out based on the county you were pulled over in. In one of the larger counties like Broward or Miami-Dade there are hundreds of these attorney who only deal with traffic tickets and usually have very good results. In the smaller ones like Leon (where Tallahassee is) there are not really any specialized ticket attorneys so the fees are higher and the outcome is usually just court costs or maybe traffic school. In FL the good thing about a judge ordering traffic school over you pleading no-contest and taking a traffic course is the judge order doesn't count against your 5 class lifetime limit on taking traffic school.