Contest Your California Traffic Ticket and Win
by
George Lee, Ph.D., J.D.
President & CEO
TicketNipper – A Document Service that Makes Sense
April 15, 2009, Cerritos, CA
Introduction
This article is about how to fix your California traffic infraction ticket by contesting and
winning the trial with very high rate of success (98% or so) without even going to court
or hiring an attorney, in a very time-saving, cost-effective, and risk-contained fashion.
In California, traffic infractions such as speeding ticket, red-light ticket, stop-sign
violations, carpool lane violations, U-turn, school-zone, and many other most frequent
moving violations cost more than $381 in fine alone per citation. The total amount at
stake arising from the traffic citation, including fine, court cost, time away from work for
in-person court appearances for both the arraignment and trial, potential traffic school
expenses, and foreseeable raise of future vehicle insurance premium if one fails to contest
the ticket, is often way over $400. In addition, sometimes money is not the only issue,
and one just has to win to avoid maxing out DMV point quota or risking suspension of
driver license.
Moreover, as the economy gets tough, the tough gets going! Namely, the number of
California traffic tickets issued daily seems to have increased substantially recently at the
time California government is facing its unprecedented financial crisis, due to the recent
global recession. Without speculating the causal correlation between the state financial
issue and the number of traffic ticket issued daily, it is apparent that there exists a
pressing need for the general public at large to be able to contest in a time-saving and
cost-effective manner with workable plan and high rate of success some of the traffic
tickets they truly don't deserve.
To average working class people, a single ticket of this type is already a substantial
burden to their financial condition. What makes it even worse is that these people, du