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Is this ticket worth fighting?

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Siva

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So I was driving a couple friends home around 1am a few nights ago and I was pulled over. Since it was young guys in a beat up volvo late at night, the cops, of course, thought we were all high. Once they decided that we were sober and they weren't going to find anything, they let me go, but not without a ticket for violating the restrictions on New Jersey's provisional liscense.

Now if you are unfamiliar, the provisional liscense law goes as follows. If you have the liscense, you cannot drive between 12am-5am or drive with more than one other passanger in the car.

However, I have had my liscense for much longer than the provisional period (one year). After that year you can get your liscense updated so that it doesn't say "provisional liscense" instead it will say operaters liscense. I hadn't gotten the liscense updated, but the cops could clearly see that I had been driving for more than a year from the experiation date on the liscense.

So basically the ticket I got (a $100 ticket no less, with required court appearance) is because I hadn't gotten two words changed on top of my liscense.

So basically my question is, is it worth fighting the ticket since I have to go to court anyway?
 
According to the NJDMV... what was the status of your license?

If it was provisional, you cannot fight it. If it is Full, you can fight that ticket, but there might be some penalty for not getting your license changed.

🙂
 
They *might* treat it as a "fix-it ticket" and drop it if you get your license changed, but I wouldn't count on it. Since you have to go to court anyway, you might as well explain the situation to the judge and see what he says. Don't try to shift the blame to the cops for giving you the ticket even though you're ELIGIBLE for a full license, it's 100% your fault for violating the restrictions of the provisional license.

Edit: What was the offense you were pulled over for? You must have been doing something other than looking suspicious. They may have just been giving you a break by giving you a ticket that doesn't give you any points (I assume you don't get points for that, I could be wrong), sort of like when they give you a seat belt ticket instead of a speeding ticket.
 
I changed my liscense a few days after getting the ticket, made sure it'd never happen again.
 
Originally posted by: Siva
I changed my liscense a few days after getting the ticket, made sure it'd never happen again.
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liscense? lol. check your spelling, me wonder how you can get it wrong since it was written clearly on your driver's license!@#:shocked:
 
Originally posted by: RobCur
Originally posted by: Siva
I changed my liscense a few days after getting the ticket, made sure it'd never happen again.
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liscense? lol. check your spelling, me wonder how you can get it wrong since it was written clearly on your driver's license!@#:shocked:
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you're one to be picking on someone's spelling.
 
My licence follows the old 'c for a noun, s for a verb' rule, and is thus spelled 'licence'.

I was trailed by cops at least a dozen times for no particular reason (I assume so he could run my plate and see if I was a no-good punk!) before I turned 20, but I've never been pulled over for no reason.
 
Originally posted by: homestarmy
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: mugs
What was the offense you were pulled over for?
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Is this one of those things where they need to pull you over for a valid reason before you get a ticket... kind of like with seatbelts?
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In NJ they can pull you over for seatbelts without another reason, but they can't exactly pull you over for driving on a junior license, because they'd have no idea that you have a junior license until after they've pulled you over. So they had to have pulled him over for some other offense.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: mugs
What was the offense you were pulled over for?
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probably nothing...stupid cops always pull teenage kids over =\ for no reason.
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When I was a teenager, I got pulled over a lot... every time for a very valid reason.
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I was pulled over a LOT when i was in highschool and 99% of the time i did something stupid.

But i can recall twice when i didnt.

1) i was driving some friends home at about 9:30pm i was on a street that had a lot of curves and streets branching off. Well the cop followed me then pulled me over. he claimed that i did NOT use my turn single. I stayed on the same road the whole time! he claimed that since it has branches you need to use it whenver youc ome to one. Even though you stay on the same road. I should mention this cop was still in training. he had a orange sash that said it.

Now this was in the middle of winter. it was freezing out. the cop made us get out of the car (4 of us) asked for ID of all of us. One kid did not have a license or any other ID (he was 14) At the time i was also helping my dad re-build a house so i had tools in the back so he threatned to take us in for that.

Well after 10-20 minutes i started complaining. We had done nothing wrong and broke no laws. It was cold and i would like to get going so i can warm up. The guy got all pissy and told us to take everything out of our pockets and what oure parents numbers were.

About that time the other cop said that was enough and told us to get oure crap and get in the car and go home. He even apologized for the deley and to have a fun night.

2) My car broke down and i had to borrow one of the cars off my father's car lot (he ownes a used dealership). Well i took a nearly new mustang GT. Well a cop pulled me over because he thought i stold it. took about an hour to clear it up.
 
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: mugs
What was the offense you were pulled over for?
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probably nothing...stupid cops always pull teenage kids over =\ for no reason.
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More like, stupid teenagers always give cops a reason to pull them over.
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Personally, I was harassed by cops when I was younger. One cop called my mother to tell her I was being a smart ass when I was nothing but No sir Yes sir (16 and scared out of my mind that I was going to lose car privaleges for speeding.)
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: mugs
What was the offense you were pulled over for?
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probably nothing...stupid cops always pull teenage kids over =\ for no reason.
Click to expand...

When I was a teenager, I got pulled over a lot... every time for a very valid reason.
Click to expand...

I was pulled over a LOT when i was in highschool and 99% of the time i did something stupid.

But i can recall twice when i didnt.

1) i was driving some friends home at about 9:30pm i was on a street that had a lot of curves and streets branching off. Well the cop followed me then pulled me over. he claimed that i did NOT use my turn single. I stayed on the same road the whole time! he claimed that since it has branches you need to use it whenver youc ome to one. Even though you stay on the same road. I should mention this cop was still in training. he had a orange sash that said it.

Now this was in the middle of winter. it was freezing out. the cop made us get out of the car (4 of us) asked for ID of all of us. One kid did not have a license or any other ID (he was 14) At the time i was also helping my dad re-build a house so i had tools in the back so he threatned to take us in for that.

Well after 10-20 minutes i started complaining. We had done nothing wrong and broke no laws. It was cold and i would like to get going so i can warm up. The guy got all pissy and told us to take everything out of our pockets and what oure parents numbers were.

About that time the other cop said that was enough and told us to get oure crap and get in the car and go home. He even apologized for the deley and to have a fun night.

2) My car broke down and i had to borrow one of the cars off my father's car lot (he ownes a used dealership). Well i took a nearly new mustang GT. Well a cop pulled me over because he thought i stold it. took about an hour to clear it up.
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I would sue my English teacher.
 
Originally posted by: stnicralisk
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: PHiuR
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: mugs
What was the offense you were pulled over for?
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Click to expand...

probably nothing...stupid cops always pull teenage kids over =\ for no reason.
Click to expand...

When I was a teenager, I got pulled over a lot... every time for a very valid reason.
Click to expand...

I was pulled over a LOT when i was in highschool and 99% of the time i did something stupid.

But i can recall twice when i didnt.

1) i was driving some friends home at about 9:30pm i was on a street that had a lot of curves and streets branching off. Well the cop followed me then pulled me over. he claimed that i did NOT use my turn single. I stayed on the same road the whole time! he claimed that since it has branches you need to use it whenver youc ome to one. Even though you stay on the same road. I should mention this cop was still in training. he had a orange sash that said it.

Now this was in the middle of winter. it was freezing out. the cop made us get out of the car (4 of us) asked for ID of all of us. One kid did not have a license or any other ID (he was 14) At the time i was also helping my dad re-build a house so i had tools in the back so he threatned to take us in for that.

Well after 10-20 minutes i started complaining. We had done nothing wrong and broke no laws. It was cold and i would like to get going so i can warm up. The guy got all pissy and told us to take everything out of our pockets and what oure parents numbers were.

About that time the other cop said that was enough and told us to get oure crap and get in the car and go home. He even apologized for the deley and to have a fun night.

2) My car broke down and i had to borrow one of the cars off my father's car lot (he ownes a used dealership). Well i took a nearly new mustang GT. Well a cop pulled me over because he thought i stold it. took about an hour to clear it up.
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I would sue my English teacher.
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I was pulled over for leaving a the parking lot of a local park around 12 or 1am. Apparently that's not legal, even if you just use it to turn around? Not a very valid reason in my opinion, I'm sure the cop just thought we were smoking pot in my car, which probably happens a lot around there anyway.
 
Originally posted by: Siva
I was pulled over for leaving a the parking lot of a local park around 12 or 1am. Apparently that's not legal, even if you just use it to turn around? Not a very valid reason in my opinion, I'm sure the cop just thought we were smoking pot in my car, which probably happens a lot around there anyway.
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You're not supposed to use parking lots to avoid traffic..its one of those stupid laws.
 
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