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Old 09-04-2003, 09:58 PM   #1
Larry_OHF
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Join Date: March 1, 2001
Location: Midlands, South Carolina
Age: 49
Posts: 14,759
My poor wife got a ticket for accidently running a red light. She was sitting at the light, and the left turn light came on for the people next to her. When she saw green, she also went, though her light was still red! Noticing what she did, she of course had to keep going when she got half way under, for turning back was more dangerous.

Now, this is where it gets questionable.

An off-duty cop saw her and pulled her. He called it in to an on-duty cop. While waiting for the on-duty cop to get there, my wife explained what happened to the off-duty cop. He took her license and all just as though he was on-duty. When the new cop arrived, he stayed near his own car while the off-duty cop took the info to him and then came back with the ticket. Thus, my wife never got to talk to the "Man on duty".

Is this worthy of fighting? The off-duty cop told her that to go to trial would be to save her insurance from going up, and quoted her for the 25th of September.

I have quit my job to return to school, and Karen is still looking for a job. We do not have $110 to spend on the cost of court. Therefore, she was more than a litle upset when she came home.

Can anybody help?
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