SPEEDING TICKET HELP? UPDATE!!!!
03-16-2006, 06:03 PM
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Burning Brakes
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Most lawyers charge $450 to $650 per hour. If this one knew the judge who has discretionary powers, the lawyer made easy money on this one. 108 in a 55 would have been 3 days in jail and attending traffic school. Some times plea bargaining to do community service works if not a chronic speed offender.
03-17-2006, 06:44 PM
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Burning Brakes
$450 to $650 is high...those are usually corporate lawyer prices. I can tell you that I and most lawyers in the Tampa Bay don't charge that for speeding tickets, they charge a lot less. Criminal stuff is a different story. Usually a flat fee for criminal charges, anywhere from $1,000 to $100,000 and on up depending on the severity of the charge.
Lou
Lou
03-19-2006, 10:19 AM
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03-19-2006, 10:40 AM
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I recently got a ticket in Southwest Virginia. The trooper reduced it on the spot to 77 in a 65. I located a lawyer on the web who was near the court (I live in NC). I explained that I wanted to get out of this with no points on my driving record or insurance. He stated that as long as I did not argue with the trooper and have a "resonably" clean driving recorf that it should not be a probolem and that I would not have to go to court. Lawyer cost - $400. I will have to pay court cost and additional cost of a one day traffic school. I think is is all very reasonable considering the alternative of insurance cost increases for 3 years.
