You don’t always need a high dollar attorney.
My wife had a traffic ticket for stopping on the line at a red light. To deliver the ticket, the police officer in a dark jacket covering most of his identifying information, marched into the middle lane at a red light from slightly behind the vehicle (in her blind spot), banged on the window (startling my wife) and proceeded to write her the ticket even after the light turned green and traffic was passing her on both sides. The infraction was “running the red light”... for stopping on the line.
We were not happy about the situation, so we hired an attorney. At trial, the attorney basically told us that we had no hope. The officer always showed up to court and they never beat him on technicalities. Within earshot of the DA, I told the attorney... winning the case wasn’t even our objective. Our objective was to get the officer on the stand and ask him the specifics about how he wrote the ticket to have him on record for our complaint we planned to file with the police department.
Mysteriously, our case never came up and at the end of the courtroom session, we were informed that our case was dismissed. The officer may have been willing to testify, the attorney was willing to fold, but the DA knew that winning the trial was going to be more trouble than it was worth.
With 106 people, there are a lot of cases that Waco can’t let go to trial. It becomes a game of chicken. Unfortunately, it is much easier to play chicken over a traffic ticket than what these bikers face.
Good way to handle it!