Would you guys recommend hiring an attorney to help fight a speeding ticket which was issued last week in Martin County on the turnpike? The situation is this: My 65-year-old dad from South Carolina was 45 minutes north of Boca Raton on the turnpike. He had his cruise control set on 75 since he entered the turnpike, speed limit was 70. At mile marker 135 he was pulled by Trooper M.A. Nyman, ID No. 2747. The trooper issued him a ticket for doing 88 (and $253, the issue is the points not the fine)! I have to think that his radar read the speed from another car. My dad readily admits to doing 75 in a 70 and that his feet had been on floorboard since he got on the turnpike with the cruise control set. The trooper told him that he could write a letter to the judge/magistrate. I have my doubts this will do any good. Would you hire an attorney? If so, who would you recommend? Thanks in advance for your advice.
I don't know how it works out of state, but I've used Traffic Ticket Attorney / Lawyer | The Ticket Clinic Florida and Nationwide | Speeding Ticket Lawyer in Florida for the last 3 years and they have been awesome! Your dad's tickets seems pretty routine for them to take care of.
usually in Florida a lawyer can stop the points but not the fine. IIt has been a long time for me so I cannot help you on what lawyer. Call a few and find out some deal in traffic tickets only. I was told by a freind that this should all be sone within two weeks or it gets hard to stop the points. You can also go to traffic school but htere are limitiations so people wait untill they are Pointed out and in danger of loosing their license. Sorry I wish I knew more and good luck. Lee
Good luck. In my experience, Lee's advice is accurate. The only other thing I could recommend is if you could prove what time you went through the toll booth and calculate your speed that way. http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/florida/294420-ticket-another-county-attorney-anyone.html http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/florida/352262-ticket-clinic-mark-gold.html http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/florida/363133-i-95-broward-county-55mph.html
You guys are the best. Thank-you so very much for the advice. We will call TheTicketClinic in the morning. All the best and I will try to remember to post the outcome of all of this.
My advice is to call Rand Maltausch. He's taken care of my tickets for past 20 years. Ask for Janet. 305-377-8326. Let me know if you need anything else. Best of luck Ruben
Always use a lawyer, your fathers ticket was just revenue generation. The Ticket Clinic or any good attorney will get you out of a speeding ticket specially if the officers radar gun was not calibrated properly or recently -- Here is a good article Mistakes of Police Radar | RadarDetector.org Attached is a Boca Raton contact that can help you with your situation... Good Luck! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I just googled this trooper because I am about to make a formal complaint and wondered if I would find others. I received a ticket in May and went to court this week to face him and of course he was a no show and it was dismissed. This trooper is an embarrassment to the profession. I was parked in the truck parking at a turnpike stop due to construction (the lot was a zoo and no spots were available) and he came over in a huff, told me to move my car to the car parking. In order to follow his instructions I was forced to go on a one way road I said this to him and he told me to figure it out. Then when I followed his instruction he wrote me up for "driving the wrong way on an entrance ramp". seriously! To make matters worse, I had my 11 year old daughter in the car. His response was exactly the same when he gave me a ticket "take it up with the magistrate".
He did you a favor. If they do not show, he knows it will be thrown out. He was a good guy, Maybe the atitude was of a bad day, or maybe he thought about it and decided to be kind. Anyway you got offm be thankful. Best Lee
You must be kidding. A "good guy" wearing a badge and a gun doesn't bully a woman with a child in the car over some ridiculous situation like parking a car in a truck parking place. Give me a break.
My brother works for the FDLE. There are SEVERAL good reasons cars and trucks are segregated in parking. If you are a woman please don't ask me to explain what a "lot lizard" is as you seem a nice lady
+1 on getting in touch with the ticket clinic. Keeping points and the number of traffic schools you have left to take is the way to go.
Ticket clinic is good, and Steven Salvati (in Delray Beach if I remember correctly) is also really good. My experience was that ticket clinic got no points but paid the fine (adjudication withheld) and a small attorney fee on a case for my daughter for speeding, Salvati got no points, no fine, and was about the same cost for a case for me for running a red light (it was a bogus ticket in my opinion). BT
Hi, just had this happen to me on the turnpike in Ft. Pierce. Same trooper stopped me said I was going 88mph but I had my cruise control set at 69. I'm going to fight it in court can you tell me what you ended up doing and the outcome? Thanks.
ALWAYS hire an Atty & NEVER write letter to Judge yourself Go to http://m.ticketclinic.com they specialize in this for FL
I realize your case was years ago, but similar situation just occurred with me. Driving on the turnpike at 77-78 going with the flow (70 mph zone). Trooper M A Nyman pulled me over, and said he radared me at 87mph. My gf and I pleaded nicely with him, explaining that I wasn’t, and that I am NOT a fast driver (I have clean record). He came back and gave me ticket for 77mph, but wrote I. The comments radar at 87mph. Not sure what to do now as far as fighting it, cause I was actually driving 77. Unfortunately I hadn’t passed thru a sun pass terminal yet to average out my pace.
There are thousands of lawyers in south FL that specialize in fighting traffic tickets... Any time you have a ticket no matter what, always hire a lawyer.
Before you spend money on a lawyer find out what the repercussions would be if you pay the fine. I got a similar ticker on 95 a few years back. But, my state is not a reciprocal state with FL, so not reported to my state DMV, no points would be applied to my license and no points meant no effect on insurance either. Thus the cheapest way out was to pay the ticket and be done with it. Aside from the fine, it never happened.
Your comment got me to thinking about this matter. Looks like there are 5 states that don't share driver license info with Florida. Please correct me if I am wrong. Here is a source I found: https://www.carinsurance.com/which-states-share-traffic-ticket-reciprocity.aspx
According to that list my state, CT, shares with FL. So, either the list is incorrect or things have changed since a few years back. There is one other possibility. The ticket was issued by a local cop (Port St. Lucie) rather than a state cop and, perhaps it was the local municipality did not share. I corresponded by phone and they stated that the info would not be sent to my state, which was accurate. Like I said, as far as CT and my insurance was concerned, it never happened. One thing I do recall was that post cards from FL lawyers filled my mail box for several weeks after I received the ticket.
