2 FIX YOUR TRAFFIC TICKET WE STRIVE FOR JUSTICE & FAIRNESS FOR ALL
OPTION 1 Plead guilty and pay the fine (Bad Option)
A.If you have not attended Traffic School in the recent 18 months, in most cases, you will be allowed by the traffic court, to attend traffic school. However, you still have to pay the traffic ticket fine as well as the court fees associated with traffic school. The only positive aspect of attending traffic school is that your DMV record will not reflect negative points and therefore your insurance premium will not increase.
B. If you have attended traffic school in the prior 18 months then you will not be allowed to attend traffic school. Therefore, if you plead guilty your DMV record will reflect the traffic ticket and result in increased insurance costs for the next 3 to 5 years that could add up to several hundreds or even thousands of dollars depending on many factors.
California traffic courts make it very easy to plead guilty and pay the fine for traffic infraction citations. Because of that most unaware people take the easy way out and pay without understanding their rights to contest the traffic ticket.
Actually, if you try to access your designated traffic court on- line services (if available in your county), you will find that they make it very easy for you to pay your traffic ticket fine (bail) and go to traffic school. The majority of the traffic courts in California will also provide you with information on attending traffic school as if this is your only choice. The reason for this is very simple. If you contest your traffic violation and get it dismissed they will not get your money.
In a great majority of traffic infraction cases, pleading guilty is the worst way of dealing with traffic citations, whether you go to traffic school or not, for the following reasons:
It could cost you several hundred dollars to pay the traffic fine, the court fees for traffic school and the traffic school fees in addition to the time it takes to complete the traffic school course
If you exhaust your right to attend traffic school on a traffic citation that can easily be dismissed with Trial by Written Declaration or court trial in traffic court and you get another unbeatable traffic citation during the next 18 months then you will certainly incur the cost of paying the traffic fine for the second traffic citation as well as the increased cost of insurance premium for the next 3 to 5 years
If you have already made the mistake of not contesting a prior traffic citation that could have been easily dismissed by a Trial by Written Declaration or in a Court Trial, and you have exhausted your right to attend traffic school on that prior traffic citation, now if you plead guilty you must pay the fine and your insurance premium will increase for the next 3 to 5 years
It is always a good option to fight a traffic ticket first and if the ticket is not dismissed then to request traffic school.
OPTION 2 Plead NOT guilty and fight the traffic ticket (Best Option)
Pleading not guilty and contesting the traffic citation may be the most intelligent way of dealing with traffic infraction tickets and in a great majority of cases it can be relatively hassle free depending on your particular situation and the way you choose to deal with it. You may not even have to go to traffic court at all and get your traffic ticket dismissed through the mail.
If you choose to fight your traffic ticket either with a Trial by Written Declaration or an in person Court Trial, our traffic ticket experts can help prepare your statement of facts for you.
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