Yet something else you can do for a ticket
This works in WA state (last time I got issued a ticket, anyway). The officer gives you the ticket, and you have to check a box, whether or not you want a court date, or whether you want to pay the ticket. Check the court date box, photocopy the ticket, then write a check for the ticket amount and mail it in. Wait 90 days, take your photocopied ticket into the courthouse and get your ticket thrown out and your money refunded, because you wanted a court date and they did not provide one in the specified time. This way you circumvent the Judge and the Officer if it works, as only a lowly clerk handles the ticket, punches some buttons on a computer and processes it as a paid ticket, not looking at the little checked box. If this doesn't work, then you can follow the advice of the article. Heh heh heh. I hate traffic cops.
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