[s-cars] Tagged

[Mike Sylvester]

In MA, speeding alone is not an arrestable offense.


Mike

www.urq20v.com

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> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Tagged
> From: djdawson2 at aol.com
> Date: Tue, March 31, 2009 5:41 pm
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> And many state's maximum penalty *can* include jail time... therefore, not civil.
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> From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
> To: Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>
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> Brett-
> MA might be different, but in PA, traffic tickets are technically a criminal matter- they are heard
> initially before a magistrate, but if you appeal the finding, you go to Common Pleas and deal with a
> district attorney, who would not be present in a civil case, unless it involved the Commonwealth in a
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> non-criminal matter, in which case it would be handled in Commonwealth Court.
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> I know that Lee is talking about MA, but we don't all live in the same Commonwealth.
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:45 PM, ?<djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
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> > ?Ah... our traffic "justice" system.? Guilty until proven innocent.
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> More like, "ahhh, our civil law system." ?http://www.rbs2.com/cc.htm
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> What I've never really understood is why speeding equates to a "loss"
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