It also doesn’t include your home address.
I didn’t think so before but with your current attitude I’m coming over to your side.
Bricker is a lawyer in Virginia. He says get a lawyer. In my state there would be no SoL on a ticket that was already written. I have seen prople come in to take care of 15 year old tickets. It was the only way to get unsuspended And the DMV is not the law. They do not follow statutes of limitations. If you were suspended they will not automatically I suspend you. Good chance your driving privileges were revoked. If they were it does not matter if you have a valid NC license. You were driving in Va.
I have no idea where you got the 5 year info. I can’t find that anywhere. So, cite?
Sorry that opinions and information that do not support and comfort you are so disturbing.
I wish you good fortune in your future endeavors.
Anyone else think that they dropped the warrant when they revoked his driving priviledge?
Quit your whining and man up.
You were driving the car. You were speeding. You didn’t have the proper license. You didn’t pay your fine. Everything that’s happened to you has been your own fault.
So don’t expect sympathy from anyone. What were giving you is the advice you need to clean up the mess you’ve made.
I do have sympathy for the OP. I hope (unless he gets a good lawyer) he throws himself on the mercy of the Judge and gets out with nothing but a lighter wallet and having learned a valuable lesson.
IANAL, but I have this much VA-specific legal advice for you:
Don’t speed, and you won’t have to worry about being too poor to pay the ticket next time. I remember being an indebted college student, and I remember getting a speeding ticket for speeding in a school zone. I attended Defensive Driving and paid the court admin fines (came out to something like $180, which included them cancelling the ticket itself and the associated $250+ fine in return for me attending the Defensive Driving class). I thought it sucked, but then, I should not have broken the law.
So yeah, put on your big boy pants, and man the hell up.
And start paying attention to local driving laws.
Not necessarily. Law enforcement officers are not obligated to arrest everyone with outstanding warrants for tickets so the fact that he wasn’t arrested is no evidence of the warrants not having been renewed.
That’s a move in the goal posts, anyway. The original assertion was that it was the unpaid ticket wasn’t a problem, but that has been established to be factually incorrect.
Either way, he has serious issues to face and a criminal defense attorney from his state has opined that he’s best off hiring counsel.
May I ask why you never paid, or showed up in court? :dubious:
Tell the judge that you are a Freemen and you seek a still suit.
I’ll grant that the police are not going to dig you up from your grave to serve a warrant.
SoL doesn’t apply after you’ve been charged with a crime. Once you’ve been charged, they issue a warrant for your arrest, the SoL stops ticking. Our intrepid OP has been charged with Failure to Appear and a warrant was issued for his arrest. It isn’t going to vanish if he stays out of trouble for 5-7 years.
He also believes that whatever happened in 2009 matters in 2012. It doesn’t, he’s already gotten different treatment, with the ticket for driving without a license that he didn’t get in 2009. Whatever the cop did in 2009 isn’t going to be taken into account now.
This could all blow over without anything more than a sizable fine being paid, or he could wind up having an incredibly bad week trying to get all the legal problems ironed out. He asks for advice and gets an avalanche of folks suggesting that his legal problems are serious, and gets angry at us for suggesting such a thing.
It depends greatly by jurisdiction. In general DMV is totally independant from the court system. There is a very good chance that he was suspended as soon as the first failure to appear happened. Even if he showed up for court and took care of it the suspension will still stand. I know around here they require a restoration fee (we got lots of words for tax).
As for a warrant, that also varies widely between jurisdictions. In some the warrant stands forever until the judge revokes it. In some there is a time limit for warrants for minor offenses. I can not find the time limit in Virginia. Here there is no time limit. The warrant would be for the crime of contempt of court, not for speeding.
Unfortunately for the OP, judges are not sympathetic to defendants who fail to appear and only do so when their freedoms are removed such as their driving privileges being revoked or they are finally arrested.
The best advice is to consult a lawyer.
Or… go down to the courthouse and find out how much your outstanding fines are and pay them. This should also remove the warrant for you to appear for the unpaid ticket.
There may be a charge pending for the failure to appear, but for traffic court, I doubt it.
If you do go before a judge, explain that you made a mistake when you were younger but are a much more responsible person now and have paid all the outstanding fines without being ordered to and would like put it behind you.
A good wipe-down of your bathroom mirror may bring the answer into focus.
Well, just to show that we do have compassion, we’ll gladly oblige your request. Now, exactly where in Virginia can we find you?
Not on any of the roads! (Too soon?)
My favorite crackpot defense is when cHarles cata.mite Freeman of the Land claims he never signed a contract with the United States of America yet he is using public roads and other services courtesy of government like police protection or fire departments.
So despite not being arrested he may still have a warrant out? Someone should tell him to get a lawyer.
There are evidently a group of people in Texas who claim citizenship in the Republic of Texas, and refuse to acknowledge the state or Federal government or their rules.
They have their own license plates. Which evidently makes them very prone to getting pulled over and issued citations for things like not having proper tags and decals on their cars, just as you’d expect such actions to do.
There may have been a warrant, but many courts and Sheriff’s Offices have an agreement on how far they will go to pick up somebody on an outstanding warrant.
If he was stopped too far away from the county in which the warrant originated, he may not be arrested.
Still, if there’s a warrant the officer will usually advise the person, and possibly offer them the chance to post bond. This leads me to believe that there wasn’t a warrant.
I just looked up the plate. The “Private Property” at the bottom is a nice touch.