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To: drunknsage
You neglected to mention if you are guilty. Oversight?
To: drunknsage
Contest it.
Private property tickets are semi-legal scams.
To: drunknsage
Get a lawyer. It if the lawyer can get you off on a lesser offense, then the money you pay the lawyer will be more than offset by insurance savings.
To: drunknsage
Dig up the definition of the charge. My guess is the wording is "a person who on a public road yadda yadda".
Now I don't see why they can't charge you with reckless endangerment.
To: drunknsage
Well, I got a ticket for parking in a handicap space in a shopping mall. I had broken my foot and had to use the motorized carts in the stores. I just did not have the little "pay your physician" for a little hanging handicapp sign from the state. So, I reckon you can be cited for speeding.
To: drunknsage
My legal advise? Don't take free legal advise.
7 posted on
11/04/2002 1:42:28 PM PST by
ChadGore
To: drunknsage
If you got it from a rent-a-cop, save it for use in the bathroom, if you got it from law enforcement your stuck with it.
To: drunknsage
Stupid question:
Were you ticketed by a cop, or by mall security?
9 posted on
11/04/2002 1:43:46 PM PST by
r9etb
To: drunknsage
Was the charge reckless driving or speeding? There are no state-imposed speed limits applicable to private property, to the best of my knowledge. However, excessive speed in a crowded parking lot could certainly be construed as reckless driving, and that applies anywhere a motor vehicle can be operated.
So there is a de facto speed limit, probably subject to the officer's discretion, the excess of which constitutes not speeding but reckless driving. If I were a prosecutor, I'd take this case. If I were defending, I wouldn't.
Local laws may vary.
10 posted on
11/04/2002 1:43:47 PM PST by
IronJack
To: drunknsage
You're in Texas, call a Texas lawyer. This is too important to try to save a couple of bucks getting free advice from nonlaywers or out-of-state lawyers who are trying to be good guys, but who shouldn't be giving advice in a jurisdiction in which they are not admitted.
To: drunknsage
I'm no lawyer, but I am sore...ly disappointed in you! How DARE you exceed their 5 MPH speed limit at the mall????!! I hope they throw the book at you! /sarcasm.
To: drunknsage
States that have typical traffic laws include places open to the motoring public as public roads where tickets can be issued.
In Texas: § 541.302. Traffic Areas
"(5) "Highway or street" means the width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained way any part of which is ***open to the public for vehicular travel***."
Reckless driving convictions can have very expensive consequences. If this is a real ticket from a real law enforcement officer, talk to a local lawyer, who may be able to get the carges reduced, or better.
I have been involved in helping motorists rights, but am not an attorney in Texas. Feel free to email me for more advice.
To: drunknsage
I must also add, how on earth did their little golf carts catch up with you? Couldn't you outrun them? If they shot at your tires, heck, shoot back.
To: drunknsage
Are we getting the full story, or your spin on the story?
For example, were you speeding and reckless and just protesting the fact that you got a ticket in a parking lot?
Were you speeding and reckless on a city street, and pulled into a parking lot, thinking you could get away with it?
Is your name an indication of the condition you were in, and the LEA gave you a break by writing a reckless ticket. Not accusing, just trying to get the full story.
As others said, get a lawyer, not free advice.
15 posted on
11/04/2002 1:57:39 PM PST by
Lokibob
To: drunknsage
My advice: I'd advise to not write advise when you mean advice.
16 posted on
11/04/2002 2:01:33 PM PST by
Plutarch
To: drunknsage
Reckless driving and speeding in a parking lot? Do you know how many serious injury and several death cases I've seen arising from parking lot mario andretti's racing to an open spot and smearing some mom or kid?
My advice, from a real lawyer, is to pay your ticket, thank God you didn't hurt anyone, and drive like your own grandkids just got out of school and are crossing in front of you.
I could probably help you evade the fine, but I won't.
To: drunknsage
You need to talk to a Texas lawyer. No lawyer, particularly one from outside of Texas, should be advising you in a chat room.
I will give you one piece of advice. Don't use your screen name when you go to court!
19 posted on
11/04/2002 2:10:41 PM PST by
blau993
To: drunknsage
When ever confronted by a cop damand to 'see a magistrate' immediatly. Under common law they undermine there case unless they immediatly take you to a magistrate.
Oh you needed legal advice badly not bad legal advice?
Hold your nose and hire a shyster^h^h^h^h^h^h^hlawyer.
20 posted on
11/04/2002 2:11:59 PM PST by
Dinsdale
To: drunknsage
Sounds like you're looking for the loophole. Probably not there. Look for another or fess up.
To: drunknsage
This is silly! Unless they've changed the laws since I last lived in Houston that is.
Several years ago I was involved in a fender-bender type accident at the local grocery store parking lot. The police wouldn't come out because it was on private property.
Needless to say, I never claimed the broken tail light or dented bumper to my insurance company (even though I wasn't at fault). My husband fixed the tail light and I lived with the dented bumper.
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