I love this time of the year. The sales are great. You can get a TV for under 300 bucks and build a brand new computer for under 400 and run Crysis on it. But one of the best deals out there is the California Amnesty Program coming up in a few weeks. This program…
If you got a ticket in California for speeding over 100 mph, you face greater consequences than if you were speeding at a rate under 100. For starters, the judge can suspend your license for up to 30 days! It’s not a mandatory suspension, but the judge has the discretion to do so. He can…
If you got a traffic ticket in Chatsworth, you need to know that the original traffic violation you were cited with is not the end of the story. This principle actually applies to all traffic tickets in southern California. Just because you were cited with a specific traffic violation, let’s say, speeding, the officer still…
I was in traffic court this morning in Long Beach, good old 415 West Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802. No big surprise there, Im a traffic lawyer so I go to the various Los Angeles traffic courts almost every day. But what made today noteworthy was the tremendous line for the traffic clerk’s office….
I fight a lot of traffic tickets in LA County. If you are given a traffic citation and don’t do what it tells you to do, i.e., you fail to pay it or fail to appear in court on the date the citation tells you to, then your ticket will be referred to GC Services…
Did you get a red light camera ticket in the mail in Los Angeles? On Monday July 25th, 2011, Los Angeles city officials admitted that it’s safe to ignore them. Monday’s three hour city council meeting was full of contention but everyone seemed to agree that nothing happens if you simply ignore the fact that…
If you have been arrested for a DUI, you likely searched the internet for a lawyer to represent you. In your search, you likely learned that you will lose your California driver license unless you schedule a DMV Administrative Per Se (APS) hearing within 10 days. Chances are, you then searched the internet for ways…
Last week I got a call from a client, we can call her Lisa. That’s not her name but we have this whole confidentiality and attorney client privilege thing going on so for purposes of this blog, she is just going to have to be Lisa. Anyway, Lisa just got out of the Orange County…
Of course you can! There are thousands of violations that you can be cited for in California but they all share one thing in common, you have a right to trial. Use it and watch good things happen. Here is some info on impeding traffic violations If you’ve been cited for one of the many…
This is a tricky one to answer. Analyzing the situation correctly involves applying all the rules from our very complex statutory scheme for APS actions and the mandatory actions imposed after court convictions. To further complicate matters, the law is constantly changing and then ultimately there are loopholes in the way the law gets applied….
