My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California
So today was my trial date for my ticket, it was a non moving light violation, nothing crazy serious or even risking points on my license. I would say about 15-20 people entered the courtroom as the doors opened and about 4 officers. I came incredibly prepared and was confident in my legal argument and my chances on this being thrown out in the first place. Anyhow slowly one by one people were called up... this continued for about 6 cases, 2 were (Failure to Appear) by the defendant and the other 4 were all rescheduling due to the officer being in training, or at his daughters graduation, or sick ect. I then realized that at this point all of the officers were out of the court room and there was a good 10-15 of us left and absolutely no police officers in the courtroom. At which point the next person walks up, judge basically says he does not know why the officer is not here and he did not tell the court apparently. Next he tells me the same thing, but in such a way to show displeasure in the fact that he had not let the court know this. I walked out with my case dismissed, semi frustrated that the hours spent hours preparing my testimony were gone to waste.
I then realized that this was was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Here was about 10-15 people and their trail dates, and i can only assume all of which are going to be tossed. A gigantic waste of my time, the rest of the defendants, and the judge himself. How do you get away with 15 failure to appears with 0 notice. I'm not sure if this was one officer or multiple as the judge did not use their name(s). Not only that but the fact that in most of the cases of the reschedulings for the officer the plaintiff was notified at the day of the trial that the trial will be rescheduled due to a circumstance that was known weeks in advance.
I guess my question is: If I'm not mistaken officers are subpoenaed to be at trial. How can you blatantly ignore a subpoena waste the time of not only the defendants but the judge, and get off with what looked like no consequences. This just blew my mind. Not a single case without a failure to appear was heard that session! A hand full were rescheduled and since there were no officers left in the room, all of the others i assume were dismissed or rescheduled as well.
So today was my trial date for my ticket, it was a non moving light violation, nothing crazy serious or even risking points on my license. I would say about 15-20 people entered the courtroom as the doors opened and about 4 officers. I came incredibly prepared and was confident in my legal argument and my chances on this being thrown out in the first place. Anyhow slowly one by one people were called up... this continued for about 6 cases, 2 were (Failure to Appear) by the defendant and the other 4 were all rescheduling due to the officer being in training, or at his daughters graduation, or sick ect. I then realized that at this point all of the officers were out of the court room and there was a good 10-15 of us left and absolutely no police officers in the courtroom. At which point the next person walks up, judge basically says he does not know why the officer is not here and he did not tell the court apparently. Next he tells me the same thing, but in such a way to show displeasure in the fact that he had not let the court know this. I walked out with my case dismissed, semi frustrated that the hours spent hours preparing my testimony were gone to waste.
I then realized that this was was the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Here was about 10-15 people and their trail dates, and i can only assume all of which are going to be tossed. A gigantic waste of my time, the rest of the defendants, and the judge himself. How do you get away with 15 failure to appears with 0 notice. I'm not sure if this was one officer or multiple as the judge did not use their name(s). Not only that but the fact that in most of the cases of the reschedulings for the officer the plaintiff was notified at the day of the trial that the trial will be rescheduled due to a circumstance that was known weeks in advance.
I guess my question is: If I'm not mistaken officers are subpoenaed to be at trial. How can you blatantly ignore a subpoena waste the time of not only the defendants but the judge, and get off with what looked like no consequences. This just blew my mind. Not a single case without a failure to appear was heard that session! A hand full were rescheduled and since there were no officers left in the room, all of the others i assume were dismissed or rescheduled as well.
Hearings and Trials: Just Got Back from First Time in Traffic Court. Few Questions
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