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This thread discusses speeding tickets and traffic tickets in the state of New York. For parking tickets go here http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=15090.0 or here http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=23665.msg1088489. For moving violations outside of New York, please start a new thread and add a link here.

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Please read this wiki first. I am not an attorney and this is not legal advice.

Q: Can I get a plea bargain in New York City?
A: No. Every single ticket goes to trial, guilty or not guilty, in New York City. (The 5 boroughs of NY, Kings, Queens, Bronx and Richmond.)

Q: How long does it take for points to fall off your New York State record/license/abstract?
A: For DMV persistent violation purposes 18 months from the date of offense regardless of the date of conviction. At 3 years after the date of conviction on the following January first the points are no longer visible on the driving record which insurance companies and traffic prosecutors look at. DMV always keeps a record of your conviction and if you get too many points over your lifetime you could get a "10 year" revocation, however those records are not visible to insurance companies.

Q: Does it pay to fight my NY ticket or should I just pay it?
A: In order to figure the true cost of a traffic ticket conviction (aside from figuring out the total fines and the effects on your record) you need to call up your insurance company and ask them 2 questions. 1. How much will my insurance go up over the next 4 years if I pay this ticket? 2. How much money in "good driver discounts" will I loss over the next 4 years and how much does this add up to?

The reason you need to ask these 2 questions separately is because the insurance companies "shield themselves" from the statutory requirement to not raise insurance rates for a first violation (or speeds up to 15 MPH) by granting "good driver discounts", and then taking away these good driver discounts when you get your first violation. Therefore the (technically) correct answer to the first question you ask them could be "your insurance will not be raised at all". Then when you ask them the second question the answer may be in the thousands of dollars over the next 4 years, depending on your insurance bracket.

Q: How can I find my New York ticket online? 
A: If it is New York City ticket you can find it at https://transact.dmv.ny.gov/pleadnpay if you received a ticket anywhere outside of NYC and anywhere upstate you must contact the individual Court by phone or mail. There is no way to find your ticket online. Google is not able to find most small Courts as it get confused with giving you the most popular courts and attorneys, therefore I suggest you look up your Court at at www.town-court.com.

Q: How can I get a copy of my NYS driving record/license/abstract?
A: You can buy it at the statutory minimum of $7 at https://my.dmv.ny.gov/crm

Q: Do NJ tickets show up on a regular non CDL NY license?
A: As long as you pay them, no they will not.

Q: Do NY tickets show up on NJ licenses?
A: Yes as a 2 point out of state conviction (most violations).

Q: Do NJ tickets show up on a NY license?
A: As long as you pay them, no. Exceptions 1. if you have a CDL the NJ conviction will record on your NY license. 2. DUI/DWI and criminal driving convictions from NJ do record on your NY license. 3. as stated above if you don't respond to the ticket the suspension will follow you to NY. In addition NJ issues warrants for failing to respond to traffic tickets. 4 If you are convicted of a high speed (90+ MPH, 100+ MPH) in NJ the Judge may suspend your NJ driving privileges. 

Q: Can I pay Court fines with a CC?
A: In NYC for moving violations you can use https://transact.dmv.ny.gov/pleadnpay. For NYC parking tickets you can use http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/parking/parking.shtml. As far as "upstate" Courts go, most Courts will allow you to pay with visa or mastercard in person. Many Courts have a CC sheet which you can fill in and mail back, other Courts have a third party processor such as https://www.ncourt.com to accept cc payments. Call the Court to find out what options they have. No one (so far that I have seen) will take CCs over the phone.

Q: I received a camera ticket for a red light (3 points) or speeding (3-11 points) or a bus lane violation (2 points). Do traffic tickets issued from a camera add points to my license?
A: Camera Tickets never go on your license as they are issued against the car and not the driver. Therefor a camera ticket will not add points to your license or increase your insurance.

Q: If I push a ticket off for 18 months and then I am convicted, can I still be suspended by the DMV for having more than 11 points?
A: Pushing off a ticket will not help protect you from DMV actions. The reason is as follows: if you receive 2 tickets worth 6 points each on the same day, and you plead guilty to one of them on that same day and you push the second ticket off for 5 years, and then you plead guilty to that second ticket, the DMV computer will look at the 2 dates of violation and say "the motorist accumulated (more than) 11 points within an 18 month period" and issue a persistent violator suspension against you license.

Insurance companies work the other way around. They can only raise your premium after your date of conviction. Therefore in our example the insurance companies will increase your insurance after the first conviction appears on your record when they renew your policy (which will stay on your record for 3 years and then until the next January 1st) and then they will increase your rates again after the second ticket conviction shows up on your record when they renew your policy, (once again this second ticket will stay on the record for  3 years plus until the next January first. It follows that pleading/being found guilty in December saves 11 months of policy increase, and if there is a way to lock in a one year policy right before a conviction in December you can be looking at a car increase for only 2 years and 1 day, instead of 4 years minus one day.)

Travelers Insurance offers 1 year rates.
Geico is 6 months.

Traffic Ticket Lawyers:

State
New York Attorney Matisyahu Wolfberg http://www.speedingdefense.com/
New York Attorney Zev Goldstein www.zevgoldsteinlaw.com 845-356-7770
New York Attorney Benjamin Goldman https://www.benjamingoldmanlawoffice.com/ 212-203-3810
New Jersey and New York Attorney Adam H. Rosenblum www.ticketdefenselaw.com
New Jersey Attorney Leib Klein www.avvo.com/attorneys/08701-nj-leib-klein-1602182.html 732-987-7040

Great Upstate NY lawyer at very cheap prices. http://jaydrillings.net/

Not that many parking ticket lawyers!
Parking ticket Non Lawyer (NYC)
Cathy Mei She takes 50% to fight the parking or camera ticket
Office Number 212-349-4978
Email 329ticket@gmail.com
Fax 646-699-3630

Parking Expert non attorney (718) 384-5052

Non attorney runner http://www.myticketsnyc.com/

Non attorney runner http://www.wefighttickets.com/

10+ Counties in upstate NY have diversion programs, allowing you to dismiss the ticket for a fine and defensive driving class. Conditions and restrictions apply. Check the District Attorney's website for your county: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Clinton, Franklin, Livingston, Orleans, Otsego, Tioga, and Wyoming.

This wiki is not legal advice, nor the advice of an attorney.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2720 on: January 24, 2017, 10:12:55 PM »
Doesn't make a difference. Its illegal to use a handheld device in NY (even not for talking or texting) he prob wrote u out a 1225D which is for using handheld devices. If not then maybe its fightable. Regardless the earliest possible court date is in at least a year, so you have until then to decide if u want to hire a lawyer. Just go online and plead not guilty
I dont believe you can go online for nassau county traffic violations,  it says needs to be mailed and you can also ask for the officers deposition proof. Anyone know if you can show up for a conference before the ticket due date or you have to first schedule one?
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2721 on: January 25, 2017, 11:22:53 AM »
What can I do for Brooklyn ticket disobey steady red light how many points is it? And how can I fight it

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2722 on: January 25, 2017, 11:52:35 AM »
What can I do for Brooklyn ticket disobey steady red light how many points is it? And how can I fight it
think it's 3 points, send in the ticket not guilty, u will get a court date in the mail and fight it if your clean you should be able to get it to a parking ticket...

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2723 on: January 25, 2017, 12:14:54 PM »
What can I do for Brooklyn ticket disobey steady red light how many points is it? And how can I fight it


if your clean you should be able to get it to a parking ticket...


Not in NYC....

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2726 on: January 27, 2017, 12:52:13 PM »
I came to court today for a "failure to yield to pedestrian in crosswalk" - violation 404B
The judge and cop (he was there) realized that the code should have been 403A1, so they changed it.  Should that have been enough for a dismissal? The judge rescheduled me for next year. By then the violation will be almost 3 years old.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2727 on: January 29, 2017, 09:23:35 AM »
I got a speeding ticket (1-9, which carries 2 points) on the Garden State Pkwy. Anyone know of a lawyer I should use? Especially if he/she charges less than $300 for their service, as this is the going fee.

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« Reply #2728 on: January 29, 2017, 09:26:55 AM »
I got a speeding ticket (1-9, which carries 2 points) on the Garden State Pkwy. Anyone know of a lawyer I should use? Especially if he/she charges less than $300 for their service, as this is the going fee.
Wow I never knew that actually pull over for 1-9 over. Was there another reason that he pulled you over? What state license do you have?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2729 on: January 29, 2017, 09:44:49 AM »
I was actually speeding faster than that, but he was nice to me. He said that he used a laser gun

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2730 on: January 29, 2017, 03:12:08 PM »
Wow I never knew that actually pull over for 1-9 over. Was there another reason that he pulled you over? What state license do you have?
An average Cop will usually not pull you over if you going up to 10 over the legal limit, but once it hits 11+ there will be no pity on you.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2731 on: January 29, 2017, 03:14:51 PM »
It sounds like he lasered her at higher than 10 over the limit, but gave her a ticket for 1-9.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2732 on: January 29, 2017, 03:56:42 PM »
It sounds like he lasered her at higher than 10 over the limit, but gave her a ticket for 1-9.
That's exactly what happened. Does this indicate that the cop wasn't sure, and hence, I have better chances in fighting the ticket?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2733 on: January 29, 2017, 04:14:53 PM »
That's exactly what happened. Does this indicate that the cop wasn't sure, and hence, I have better chances in fighting the ticket?
Let those with real knowledge chime in.  My experience was that the cop seemed  surprised that the car he stopped was a 50 yo lady, not some young guy.  So he showed me on the ticket how to fight it, and I understood that he was recommending that I do that.  I'm still in the process and so far I don't see how this has benefited me.


You got ticketed for a much lighter offense than you actually did, so I think that's actually a favor.
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2734 on: January 30, 2017, 05:36:57 PM »
Just got pulled over by a nasty NJ State trooper. (The roads were covered with them yesterday)

My license and plates are NY. He was a very nast smirky cop. I did not answer disrfespecfuly, but he was asking questions, saying he couldn't hear, and asking me to repeat over and over. ("Where were you going, are those your kids in the car, how fast were you going etc.)

He claimed I was going 89 in a 65 zone. I don't think I was, but I can't prove it. He wrote me two tickets! One for speeding 85, and the other for "39:4-97 Careless Driving: Likely to endanger person or property". He said that speed I was going warranted both tickets.

So I was written two tickets for the same violation.

This comes with a mandatory court appearance.

The guy was smirking the whole time, and my wife and I both though he was anti-semetic.

This was in NJ on the 80 EB . Parsippany, NJ. (And at the end of the month, of course)

I assume I need a lawyer for this one. Any good advice or suggestions here? Thanks!

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« Reply #2735 on: January 30, 2017, 05:42:31 PM »
Just got pulled over by a nasty NJ State trooper. (The roads were covered with them yesterday)

My license and plates are NY. He was a very nast smirky cop. I did not answer disrfespecfuly, but he was asking questions, saying he couldn't hear, and asking me to repeat over and over. ("Where were you going, are those your kids in the car, how fast were you going etc.)

He claimed I was going 89 in a 65 zone. I don't think I was, but I can't prove it. He wrote me two tickets! One for speeding 85, and the other for "39:4-97 Careless Driving: Likely to endanger person or property". He said that speed I was going warranted both tickets.

So I was written two tickets for the same violation.

This comes with a mandatory court appearance.

The guy was smirking the whole time, and my wife and I both though he was anti-semetic.

This was in NJ on the 80 EB . Parsippany, NJ. (And at the end of the month, of course)

I assume I need a lawyer for this one. Any good advice or suggestions here? Thanks!
I got something similar recently where i was given speeding (I think 30 over) and reckless driving, which is worse then careless. I didnt think i was going that fast either but there wasnt much I  could do. I hired a lawyer for $350 who got what had the potential to be a t the minimum 10 points and fines down to 2 points and a small fine, I dont remember the amount. This was in Howell and the lawyer I hired was the former prosecutor there who new all the people there. My advise would be try and and find someone familiar with the people in that court. Good Luck!

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2736 on: January 30, 2017, 05:44:05 PM »
I got something similar recently where i was given speeding (I think 30 over) and reckless driving, which is worse then careless. I didnt think i was going that fast either but there wasnt much I  could do. I hired a lawyer for $350 who got what had the potential to be a t the minimum 10 points and fines down to 2 points and a small fine, I dont remember the amount. This was in Howell and the lawyer I hired was the former prosecutor there who new all the people there. My advise would be try and and find someone familiar with the people in that court. Good Luck!

Maybe someone here can suggest a good lawyer for that area?!?

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2737 on: January 30, 2017, 06:50:21 PM »
That's exactly what happened. Does this indicate that the cop wasn't sure, and hence, I have better chances in fighting the ticket?
You should go down yourself, hopefully you'll be able to plea down to a parking ticket.

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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2738 on: January 30, 2017, 08:07:05 PM »
You should go down yourself, hopefully you'll be able to plea down to a parking ticket.
Does this really happen?
I was just in court and of the 10 or so cases I saw, they were either found guilty, not guilty or it was held for more information. There was no bargaining down, even for someone who the judge seemed to have sympathy for (but was found guilty).
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Re: Moving Violation Tickets
« Reply #2739 on: January 30, 2017, 08:19:35 PM »
Does this really happen?
I was just in court and of the 10 or so cases I saw, they were either found guilty, not guilty or it was held for more information. There was no bargaining down, even for someone who the judge seemed to have sympathy for (but was found guilty).
where was this that they didn't let bargaining? I was in over 15 court houses and i always bargained