refer Lenny Ignelzi/Associated Press
Can an attorney really get your traffic ticket dismissed? If there are errors on the ticket, it 
gets dismissed. If there are no mistakes, then it’s not going to be dismissed, but they still might get out of the points and the school and get a reduced fine, like a reward for a good record.”
But do traffic lawyers deliver the goods?
“Can they get the tickets dismissed? Yes, because they know the technicalities,” says Brenda Di Ioia, chief traffic magistrate for Broward County Courts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
“They also know which ones they can’t get dismissed,” she adds. “When the ticket is perfect, nobody is going to be able to do anything for you, so they plea (bargain) those. The attorneys are great if you don’t have time to go to court or if your driving record isn’t great.”
So how do they do it? How can they afford to do it?
We’ll ask a couple of them. But first, the realities of traffic court.
You probably aren’t aware of it, but when you receive a moving violation, you enter the complex machinery of your local municipal or county traffic court, where negotiation is more the rule than the exception.
They don’t tell you that, of course. That’s why 9 in 10 traffic offenders simply pay the ticket rather than fight it in court.
Paying that ticket has one serious drawback, however: It counts as a conviction on your record. And in recent years, the ripple costs of a conviction have eclipsed the immediate financial ding to your wallet. Today, the wrong ticket at the wrong time can send your insurance through the roof, result in a suspended license and steep state surcharges, and even cost you your job.
If you wonder if you need a traffic lawyer, you probably do.
Alexander Truluck focuses his practice as a criminal defense attorney in Clearwater, Palm Harbor, Largo, Dunedin and the Tampa Bay area.
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