I’ve been living in the U.S for 5 years. Never had a speeding ticket. Yesterday I got my first (and hopefully the last). I heard than in other states they offer plea bargains and they eliminate your speeding ticket if you haven’t had one in the last two years. Does anybody knows if there is something like that in this state?
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you can talk to the officer that wrote the ticket and ask if he can reduce it to something less
not sure in Washington were I am from you ask for court supervision then you are required to take a 4 hour class and pay 35 dollars for class on top off ticket then it will stay off record
it happens all over the world. just be sincere and maybe the judge will let you off for first offense.
Washington courts will, as a matter of course, allow you to take a “deferred finding” for ordinary traffic tickets. Generally speaking, you don’t need to explain or beg or anything: you just stand up and say, “deferred finding” and that’s it. Nothing on your record.
Theoretically it’s in the court’s discretion, but unless there’s something odd going on, they’ll just give you the deferred finding without even thinking about it. Indeed, I’ve even seen the court give a deferred finding where someone else showed up in court and asked the judge *not* to give the offender a deferred finding.
Limitations and qualifications:
- The above information is for ordinary speeding tickets, and may not apply where there’s something else involved (like reckless driving, DUI, an actual accident, etc.)
- You do have to pay an administrative fee of something like $100 or $150.
- If you commit another offense within 1 year, the ticket you got out of comes back to life.
- You can’t take *another* deferred finding for 7 years. If your ticket is sufficiently minor, you might want to consider saving your 1-every-7-year get-out-of-ticket-free(ish) card.
If you look it up on the courts website or call you show be able to find the answers. If you take a traffic school class you can also have the point removed this way also. TicketRelief.com offers online classes