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Message: [QUOTE="High Lord Gomer, post: 253664, member: 16469"] In my misguided youth I had the opportunity to visit many traffic courts. In one I went to (Prince Georges County, MD) the judge said right up front, "If you plead guilty, I will reduce your fine and points. If it was $200 and 6 points, I'll make it $150 and 4 points. if it was 120 and 4, 100 and 2...Line up here if you want to plead guilty." I also went to one (here in Columbia, SC) where the judge lead in with, "If you came here thinking you would get your points reduced, you came to the wrong place. The DMV assesses points, not me. If you came here to get your fine reduced, you're also out of luck because I don't do that either. Now...for any of you that were wishing to plead guilty, you can leave through that door and go pay your fine at the counter across the hall." Most of the time they did drop the fine and points some if you showed up and were respectful. Do all of us a favor and DO NOT BREED!! Reminds me of one of the hundred or so occasions I got to speak with a Maryland officer... I was 17, driving my sister's 65 Impala, and following a state police car into town (Easton) on a four lane highway. He was in the right lane and I was in the left. The speed limit dropped from 55 to 35 and he slowed down. I didn't. Shortly after that he pulled me over. He said, "What are you doing?!? You passed an ugly, yellow, state police car with lights and antennaes hanging all off the thing. That's dumb. I ought to give you a ticket just for being dumb." [/QUOTE]

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