Today I was in Spotsylvania General District Court and saw one of the worst defenses you can try for a speeding ticket. The defendant basically said: “Judge, I had a speeding ticket last year. I was guilty then, so I paid it. But I learned my lesson, and I wasn’t speeding this time.” Oh so [...]
The other day in Stafford General District Court, I overheard a dog barking case that caught my attention. The defendant in the case was charged with allowing her dog to bark too much in violation of the County’s noise ordinance. She represented herself and pleaded not guilty. Her defense essentially was that the dog barks, [...]
The other day I was in Stafford General District Court when a young man answered for his case on the traffic docket. The judge announced that he was charged with reckless driving for driving too fast for road conditions. The judge then asked how the gentleman pleads. The young man said, “Well, Your Honor, I [...]
Many times when you get pulled over for having a headlight out the officer will give you a warning. After all, it’s one of those items you normally won’t know about until someone points it out to you. Today in Spotsylvania General District Court I saw an example of a headlight ticket gone wrong. One [...]
Last Friday we had a substitute judge in Stafford General District Court. It wasn’t a judge I was familiar with. I quickly began inquiring to find out his name and anything I could about him. As I sat through the traffic docket, I learned that he was quite reasonable and fair. He gave many people [...]
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Today in Spotsylvania General District Court, one of the Troopers had an interesting issue: the person he stopped had posted about the stop on Facebook. The driver even posted a picture of the Trooper’s cruiser. The crazy part here is that the Trooper found out about it! I don’t know what the driver actually wrote [...]
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I was recently waiting in court for a client’s reckless driving charge. I overheard another case that shocked me. A driver was charged with reckless driving by speed. The officer testified to the basics of the case. He clocked the defendant going X speed, it happened in Spotsylvania County, etc. Then the driver’s attorney cross-examined [...]
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I was sitting in Stafford General District Court today when the judge called a case for “being a pedestrian on the interstate.” I honestly had never seen a case regarding that statute, so I was quite interested to hear what happened. The Trooper testified that he saw two young ladies on foot in the middle [...]
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Today a banana was summoned to appear for a Stafford speeding ticket. Not quite like that, but it was still pretty funny. I was sitting in the Stafford General District Court for my client’s reckless driving ticket. The judge was calling cases and hearing them just like a usual day in court. Then a Virginia [...]
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Lawyers are in court a lot. We get to hear many funny and odd comments. Here’s one of my latest ones from the Fredericksburg General District Court: “You’re innocent until proven guilty.” The funny thing is that someone said this in civil court. A debtor had shown up for court and was found guilty because [...]
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