allst4r

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look on the ticket and find out when the officer has a day offf. usually they will not show up to the court date if they are not on duty.

predacon47

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LOL... The day off trick don't work, well for me that is. I schedule all my traffic violations for two or three days out of the month. Yes I do show up. All court days are OVERTIME! lol..FYI in the state of NV I do need to annotate how the speed was recorded ie radar, laser, lydar, or pace. Eyeballing speed is not enough probable cause to stop.

XSV

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I've done defensive driving in Houston, Texas, at least three times already and each time I was required to come back to the court house with my driving record and certificate of completion for the defensive driving. They told me I could not request the documents to be sent to the court. I was not directing the comment to the OP, but to the guy who got a ticket for speeding 99 in a 70, that's 29 over the limit, which means no DD for him. The judge has to approve for defensive driving first. So there's no point in putting in the info on the website. Either way, he'll be making a trip to the court house.

sw2oboi

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Did the police write down on your ticket 89mph or 80+? if it was 89, traffic school is not offered. if you are guilty you will get that point. i suggest do a TBD which is popular, if that fails go to court. As i sat in court listening to other peoples speeding tix, most cops arent dicks so most people got a 80+ tix and could go to traffic school. Except for one kid who was 16, cop wrote down 95. Hope your cop was easy and you will most likely get dismissed.

kingster

It is clear that things are different in Texas than here in CA (Los Angeles).
I got a citation about a year ago. I waited to the last few days to pay the citation online.
I was not sure if I was a candidate for traffic school but selected that option anyway.
Since I had not had any violations since 1987, I was accepted. I paid my fees (violation + court fees). I enrolled in idrivesafely.com (of course I selected CA) and was asked if I wanted a hard copy of my traffic school certificate of completion, print one out when course is completed or send me one via eamil. Either way, I was going to be charged a fee.
I decided to have the school send one to the court for free. I never showed up to court but to get an extension. I never saw any judge but those on TV. No judge decided how long I had to complete traffic school. I never challenged the citation because it was really my fault.
Two different tates, courts don't handle things the same.
I did called the court to make sure I was all clean and clear. I was!!

Toxicxk23

So I looked the ticket over, he did right laser and laser #. He also wrote that I was going 89mph. If I do TBWD and I lose, can I still request traffic school?

Sango

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Oh court, can be hard to fight against the laser because the court would hand you a sheet of info in court about the laser which was used. It would have the list of when it was inspected, calibrated with a % of error in the speed.