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originally posted by: Asktheanimals
Shouldn't the protesters in Baltimore be chanting:
No money!
No justice!
Our country is gravely ill.
This is but one more sign.
We've done a 180 degree turn since 9/10/2001
originally posted by: DYepes
a reply to: SheopleNation
hey man, if there were no bail I would be sitting in jail until trial for driving with a suspended license. That is not fair to me. I did not even commit a moving violation, just decided to randomly pull me over. I dont have money for a trial so I just plead for the 15 days, and they offered me weekends. And I was like "ohh hey this weekends thing is not so bad." I actually get 3 days credit for only two.
originally posted by: DYepes
a reply to: Aazadan
Trials cost a lot more money than regular court costs, I wold have lost anyways. I cant exactly prove my license was not suspended, because it was. Mistake on my part. Is it worth 15 days in jail?? Maybe not, but the regular court costs are $270 and a lot more for a trial which I would have lost.
It was better for me to just plea guilty for my heinous crime of unlicensed driving. The courts are not the only people that get overloaded if everything was on trial. People like me would be too. I repeat, it would have benefited me zero to take that incident to trial, and its only 15 days man, and on WEEKENDS! That is not a big deal.
yea your going to have to speak for yourself on that one. I dont pirate movies which is the only way I presume you came to the conclusion we all commit felonies everyday. I dont even download music anymore what with the great free streaming programs they have out nowadays. No my days of risking felonies is over, so I cannot agree with that statement.
We all commit multiple felonies every single day.
originally posted by: DYepes
yea your going to have to speak for yourself on that one. I dont pirate movies which is the only way I presume you came to the conclusion we all commit felonies everyday. I dont even download music anymore what with the great free streaming programs they have out nowadays. No my days of risking felonies is over, so I cannot agree with that statement.
We all commit multiple felonies every single day.
I dont know how many times you have been in court, but I can tell you with certainty it is pointless to go to trial when you know the law is stacked against your case considering the punishment from a jury can be worse than a pea deal. And for what the state considers a Criminal traffic violation "driving with a suspended license", it would have been a waste of my own time not just the courts to come to the same outcome.
originally posted by: DYepes
a reply to: Aazadan
well I dont carry personal tracking devices with me anymore (yes that includes a cellphone, ditched that at the new year). I mention it quite in the hopes people can remember the days that we did not need them, and frankly still do not. They are wants, not needs. I want to move on though to what you experienced.
I have seen the registration cases in the courts quite often. I have never heard of the fine being that high or it being a felony charge, at least not here in Florida. Even a DUI in FL is not a felony unless you hurt someone. I only had to pay court costs of $270 for the suspended license charge. When it comes to registration, even if it was expired at the time you were pulled over, in FL if you get it fixed before the court date the bigger charge is thrown out and reduced to something simple like "no valid" or something. Saves money and points or whatever.
How do you be on probation for two years, not make a single payment, not even report to the P.O. , and expect another chance on a violation??
it makes no sense. There are way too many apathetic stupid people blaming the courts for their troubles though instead of blaming themselves. yes I though it was dumb I had to go to jail for driving without a license. But I made sure I crossed all my T's and dotted all the i's so I dont have to explain month after month to the judge why I clearly have not even bothered to make an attempt at settling the demands and punishment levied upon me. Ho do some of these people even walk and breathe at the same time???