Moving Violation: How To?

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qazwsxedc34

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I recently was ticketed for a moving violation while driving my friends car, registered to his father. I went through a red light for a school project, it was highly calculated, late at night with zero traffic but that’s beside the point. Anyway, I just turned 21 and when I was 19 I was ticketed with a 10mph speeding ticket. I went to the traffic tribunal court and the judge told me to pay court fines and complete 20 hours of community service so that my insurance wouldn’t go up. I came back with the completed hours but I’m wondering if this violation is off my record now?

I’m also wondering if I’m able to use my good driving record for this recent moving violation or if this doesn’t apply because I had a ticket a year and a half ago or if it does because the previous violation was erased from my record for completing the community service hours.

The officer told me that I had no offenses on my record, no tickets, nothing. So from this circumstance it seems that I could use my good driving record. I’m just wondering if the courts look at the same database as an officer would? I mean the officer could of been bullshitting me the entire time. Please help, I’m a poor person!
 
Why would the officer lie to you? Did you record what he or she said? If you have a transcript of what you were told, then if anyone asks differently you have your transcript as proof.

If you're not convinced, maybe you can bypass the police and talk to your local court.

It seems like you're fine. You mentioned two or three times in the OP that you've been told your record will be clean. I'm not sure what NS is going to tell you otherwise.
 
topic:CONAIR_BUSCEMI said:
I went through a red light for a school project, it was highly calculated
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Contradictory no? I would think one of the calculations would be "Check if there are any police near the red light".
 
topic:CONAIR_BUSCEMI said:
I recently was ticketed for a moving violation while driving my friends car, registered to his father. I went through a red light for a school project, it was highly calculated, late at night with zero traffic but that’s beside the point. Anyway, I just turned 21 and when I was 19 I was ticketed with a 10mph speeding ticket. I went to the traffic tribunal court and the judge told me to pay court fines and complete 20 hours of community service so that my insurance wouldn’t go up. I came back with the completed hours but I’m wondering if this violation is off my record now?

I’m also wondering if I’m able to use my good driving record for this recent moving violation or if this doesn’t apply because I had a ticket a year and a half ago or if it does because the previous violation was erased from my record for completing the community service hours.

The officer told me that I had no offenses on my record, no tickets, nothing. So from this circumstance it seems that I could use my good driving record. I’m just wondering if the courts look at the same database as an officer would? I mean the officer could of been bullshitting me the entire time. Please help, I’m a poor person!
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In california, if you speed or have a minor infraction and you do traffic school/dont get in any trouble for the next year and a half/pay bail then it doesn't get reported to your insurance.

If it's the same where you are and it really has been 1.5 years (or whatever the law is in your state), your record should be clean as long as you do the traffic school/community service thing again and pay the fine/bail. You could always contest it, but as you said, you rolled a red light on purpose for a school project lol. if you told that to the officer I doubt you'd get off of the violation in court haha.

P.s. That sounds like a terrible idea for a group project, If you need it for a video/photo next time just roll through an empty green light at night and change green to red in post
 
What exactly do you mean by "use your good driving record"?

Not sure, what state you're in, I'd try to find your answers in the local RCW's if you can. Can be a bit tricky to search through all that though.

In Washington where I'm at we're allowed one break every 5 (I think) years, where we can pay $100 to sit through a defensive driving course that's a few hours long. This takes the ticket and it's fine off your record, but you can only use the pass once every 5 years. I'm think police can still see that you had that ticket but it was negated because of the course, but insurance or anyone else won't know shit.

I would assume your state is similar in the sense that they give you an option to negate your first offense, but any following offenses won't get the same break. You can always do a mitigated hearing, where you appear in court to explain the circumstances which will cut the cost of the ticket in half at least, assuming you aren't an ass in court. In your case, since he watched you run a red light I wouldn't suggest a contested hearing unless you find an inconstancy in the ticket, which does happen occasionally. I got off clean one time because the officer sent me to the wrong courthouse for the jurisdiction that I was stopped in.
 
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