My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: MS
My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: MS
Got pulled over for slowing down/crawling through a stop sign. Officer asked for my license and insurance, my insurance paper said it expired May 20th of this year, but it really expires July 1 of this year (basically, I changed a few things in the policy on Nov 1, and it reset the policy for 6 months from the change date). So he tells me it's expired, then I show him a text message from Geico this morning with a link to my new insurance cards (since the policy re-news on July 1). He reads the text and says "OK, that's valid" and I click the link to login to pull up the actual cards and without saying anything else he just walks back to his cop car.
He comes back with a ticket for not stopping at the stop sign. And he spends 10 minutes explaining the court date, where the court house is, land marks next to it, etc. I cut him off and tell him "I am not interested in going to court".
He gets upset and says "why not!?".
And I respond "I think I'll just be wasting my time there."*
And he says "I don't think so"
And I say "that's because you're getting a bo-"
Before I could even say the word bonus he yells "wait right here!"
He goes to his cop car and comes back with a second ticket for not providing insurance. Tells me they don't get bonuses and he was going to let me off without showing insurance. (1) you said the text message was valid, when I tried to login and show you the actual ID cards you walked off (2) the text literally says "GEICO Policy: renewal ID cards are now available at [link]" if you wanted to actually see the ID cards (my state allows digital insurance cards) you need to ask and allow a driver the opportunity to bring it up
* As for wasting my time, I tried to take a speeding ticket to court here years ago. Tried to do the whole motion for discovery but the cop just looked at me stupid and said "I don't think you know how it works". As for my court date, my cop had a training session that day and couldn't come. The court didn't informed me of this prior to the court date; in fact, they made me wait for 3 hours to hear all the other trials and when everyone else was done the lady told me the officer had a training session to go to today and I'll just have to come back in 3 weeks. WOW
So 3 weeks later is my court date, the judge is busy doing paper work for God knows what. He never looked at me or the officer even once (it's obvious he made up his decision before the case). So I questioned the cop, eventually found out the judge wasn't even paying attention so I stopped talking. Court room was silent for 3-4 minutes. Judge finally looks up from his paper work and asks me if I am done. I respond yes. He says "the cops radar detector said you were speeding, so you were speeding, guilty". LOL
Now, I don't really care about the failing to stop ticket. It's my first ticket in 4-5 years. But the failing to provide insurance would make it 2 tickets...and that concerns me. Can I do anything here?
Cops always ask for license + insurance, and if I really didn't provide insurance, he should have written it on the first ticket, instead of writing it on a second ticket and time stamping it 20 minutes later. And I have copies on my phone and now printed out of the current insurance and the new one affective July 1
Honestly, this cop was just envious I am young, successful and had a really nice car and this was very apparent from the beginning.
Seems like the court here dismisses the big things, literally all 5 cases I sat in on the judge dismissed: multiple DUIs, striking a police horse :confused:, a lady with no insurance (not no proof of insurance, actually not having any insurance) and the judge removed the ticket because "you can use the money to buy insurance instead of paying the fine". And it seems like the small things they just want you to pay the ticket and get lost, and if you try to contest it, as I said above, you're just wasting your time
My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: MS
Got pulled over for slowing down/crawling through a stop sign. Officer asked for my license and insurance, my insurance paper said it expired May 20th of this year, but it really expires July 1 of this year (basically, I changed a few things in the policy on Nov 1, and it reset the policy for 6 months from the change date). So he tells me it's expired, then I show him a text message from Geico this morning with a link to my new insurance cards (since the policy re-news on July 1). He reads the text and says "OK, that's valid" and I click the link to login to pull up the actual cards and without saying anything else he just walks back to his cop car.
He comes back with a ticket for not stopping at the stop sign. And he spends 10 minutes explaining the court date, where the court house is, land marks next to it, etc. I cut him off and tell him "I am not interested in going to court".
He gets upset and says "why not!?".
And I respond "I think I'll just be wasting my time there."*
And he says "I don't think so"
And I say "that's because you're getting a bo-"
Before I could even say the word bonus he yells "wait right here!"
He goes to his cop car and comes back with a second ticket for not providing insurance. Tells me they don't get bonuses and he was going to let me off without showing insurance. (1) you said the text message was valid, when I tried to login and show you the actual ID cards you walked off (2) the text literally says "GEICO Policy: renewal ID cards are now available at [link]" if you wanted to actually see the ID cards (my state allows digital insurance cards) you need to ask and allow a driver the opportunity to bring it up
* As for wasting my time, I tried to take a speeding ticket to court here years ago. Tried to do the whole motion for discovery but the cop just looked at me stupid and said "I don't think you know how it works". As for my court date, my cop had a training session that day and couldn't come. The court didn't informed me of this prior to the court date; in fact, they made me wait for 3 hours to hear all the other trials and when everyone else was done the lady told me the officer had a training session to go to today and I'll just have to come back in 3 weeks. WOW
So 3 weeks later is my court date, the judge is busy doing paper work for God knows what. He never looked at me or the officer even once (it's obvious he made up his decision before the case). So I questioned the cop, eventually found out the judge wasn't even paying attention so I stopped talking. Court room was silent for 3-4 minutes. Judge finally looks up from his paper work and asks me if I am done. I respond yes. He says "the cops radar detector said you were speeding, so you were speeding, guilty". LOL
Now, I don't really care about the failing to stop ticket. It's my first ticket in 4-5 years. But the failing to provide insurance would make it 2 tickets...and that concerns me. Can I do anything here?
Cops always ask for license + insurance, and if I really didn't provide insurance, he should have written it on the first ticket, instead of writing it on a second ticket and time stamping it 20 minutes later. And I have copies on my phone and now printed out of the current insurance and the new one affective July 1
Honestly, this cop was just envious I am young, successful and had a really nice car and this was very apparent from the beginning.
Seems like the court here dismisses the big things, literally all 5 cases I sat in on the judge dismissed: multiple DUIs, striking a police horse :confused:, a lady with no insurance (not no proof of insurance, actually not having any insurance) and the judge removed the ticket because "you can use the money to buy insurance instead of paying the fine". And it seems like the small things they just want you to pay the ticket and get lost, and if you try to contest it, as I said above, you're just wasting your time
Other Violations: Angry Cop Gives Second Ticket for No Insurance but He Didn't Ask Me for My Insurance
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