What the actual frack (I can't believe curse words are censored out...what is this, a forum for kiddies?)?!! Good luck to you, Pulsar!
The justice system is truly blind. ....
There's a user setting for that.What the actual frack (I can't believe curse words are censored out...what is this, a forum for kiddies?)?!! Good luck to you, Pulsar!
The justice system is truly blind. I have a completely clean driving record. Quite literally a blank page. I hit a deer driving home a month ago, and called the police to come out and make a report. The officer realized my drivers license had expired on my birthday 3 weeks ago - so he arrested me. Luckily my wife was already on her way with a friend, because he called a towing company to come impound the car as well. Insurance was up to date, registration was up to date. I had merely forgetten to renew my license. What many folks don't realize in Michigan is that it's a CRIMINAL offense, not a traffic or civil infraction. That means you need to go get a lawyer immediately and you get arraigned and the whole spiel. It's a multi-year fine along with up to 6 months in jail. For a first offense.
Alabama? 90 day grace period, no problem.
Other states make it a civil penalty. Some don't have a penalty at all other than a late fee.
It's pretty fucked up, really. My wife got pretty upset with the judge at the arraignment. She asked if he thought he was serving the community by taking a engineer who volunteers his time 6 months out of the year and hasn't had a speeding ticket in 13 years off the street.
When you venture into a federal offense, they can essentially do what they want.
probably like this
That's interesting thanks. But I'm still not sure how they did it. In that video the tow truck is completely perpendicular to the parked car. On the street I was on there are all cars parked on the opposite side as well. In between the parked cars is enough room for 1 car and a bike. Not enough room for a perpendicular tow truck. Maybe they finagled it somehow with ninja angles.
Not to further derail this thread, but what you're saying about Eastern/Western doesn't really make sense.
It had to do with how the districts were handling Permissive Joinder of Parties and the $350 filing fee. While the courts are not bound by another district the Western Mich district was basically universally severing all but one defendant, so much so that filings of this nature had essentially ceased on that side of the state. In Eastern Mich they were currently being allowed pending developments further along in the litigation phase when my case was filed.
Edit: Going through https://dockets.justia.com for a given time frame I can find 32 cases like this filed in Eastern Michigan compared to 0 in Western Michigan and I haven't gone through all of them. I can only find a few Western Michigan cases at all and those are early on and stopped mid 2012 while the filings in Eastern Michigan continued. My PACER account is long expired but I'm willing to bet those two cases had defendants severed which caused them to abandon half the state to harass the other half for a few more years
Fortunately multiple motions to quash the lawsuit were filed and a particular judge in Eastern Michigan was catching on. While I was severed from the case it was not before I had expended money for legal representation. All because one side of the state realized the system was being abused while the other side let it continue
Since you rate to have your vehicle stored during overseas tours/deployments it wouldn't have been on the street. Let your state know it is not being driven while you are gone.So..... what if you had been overseas in the military when it expired?
What the actual frack (I can't believe curse words are censored out...what is this, a forum for kiddies?)?!! Good luck to you, Pulsar!
The justice system is truly blind. I have a completely clean driving record. Quite literally a blank page. I hit a deer driving home a month ago, and called the police to come out and make a report. The officer realized my drivers license had expired on my birthday 3 weeks ago - so he arrested me. Luckily my wife was already on her way with a friend, because he called a towing company to come impound the car as well. Insurance was up to date, registration was up to date. I had merely forgetten to renew my license. What many folks don't realize in Michigan is that it's a CRIMINAL offense, not a traffic or civil infraction. That means you need to go get a lawyer immediately and you get arraigned and the whole spiel. It's a multi-year fine along with up to 6 months in jail. For a first offense.
Alabama? 90 day grace period, no problem.
Other states make it a civil penalty. Some don't have a penalty at all other than a late fee.
It's pretty fucked up, really. My wife got pretty upset with the judge at the arraignment. She asked if he thought he was serving the community by taking a engineer who volunteers his time 6 months out of the year and hasn't had a speeding ticket in 13 years off the street.
When you venture into a federal offense, they can essentially do what they want.
Since you rate to have your vehicle stored during overseas tours/deployments it wouldn't have been on the street. Let your state know it is not being driven while you are gone.
Harsh penalties - don't ever do it (as in forget to renew). Holy hell man.
Woo. Just got assigned a Pre-Trial date of February 14th. And called to tell my wife that our Valentines day trip is cancelled. So, Arraignment, Pre-Trial... any criminal lawyers want to tell me what happens after the Pre-Trial? So much fun!
How much are the fines? You may just want to pay them and move on. If their judges are like their cops you aren't going to get anything from going to trial.
Lol last thing I expected to come across while reading this thread was an "Alice's Restaurant" reference.Your story reminds me of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM
This song is based on an Arlo Guthrie true life experience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice's_Restaurant
Long song, but worth the listen if you never played it before.
thats messed up
i drove my car for 9 months with an expired registration in NY - i was unemployed for a year back during the shit show that was 2008/9 and didn't drive much, never realized it expired and took it in for a random oil change and the dealer told me that it needed to be inspected/registered and it had expired 9 months ago
found out my licence expired when i was flying home from a business trip in 2011 at the airport when i showed security my ID to get on the plane, he didn't care, it expired 2-3 months prior
You don't understand. It is a CRIMINAL offense if you forget to renew your license in Michigan. An actual criminal trial is part of that. This isn't a civil offense plead-guilty-get-points-move-on. You get to serve jail time, and permanently get a misdemeanor on your record. Forever. Then they slap points on your license and fine you too just to add insult to injury.
Err don't American driver's licence expire on your birthday like ours?
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The justice system is truly blind. I have a completely clean driving record. Quite literally a blank page. I hit a deer driving home a month ago, and called the police to come out and make a report. The officer realized my drivers license had expired on my birthday 3 weeks ago - so he arrested me. Luckily my wife was already on her way with a friend, because he called a towing company to come impound the car as well. Insurance was up to date, registration was up to date. I had merely forgetten to renew my license. What many folks don't realize in Michigan is that it's a CRIMINAL offense, not a traffic or civil infraction. That means you need to go get a lawyer immediately and you get arraigned and the whole spiel. It's a multi-year fine along with up to 6 months in jail. For a first offense.
Alabama? 90 day grace period, no problem.
Other states make it a civil penalty. Some don't have a penalty at all other than a late fee.
It's pretty fucked up, really. My wife got pretty upset with the judge at the arraignment. She asked if he thought he was serving the community by taking a engineer who volunteers his time 6 months out of the year and hasn't had a speeding ticket in 13 years off the street.
When you venture into a federal offense, they can essentially do what they want.