I got pulled over in San Jose for having a burned out license plate bulb. They handed me a ticket in Novrmber of last year. I've received nothing in the mail since then and have been checking the traffic court website for info about my ticket number. 3 months later (now), the website says I can pay the bail forfeitfure of almost $200!! Is that right to be charged that much for a burned out license plate bulb?
Is there any other way out of this?
Yes, get an attorney.
Go to the court date. That's kind of extreme some you wouldn't really have any way to be notified of the light being out
How do I schedule an appointment? Do I have to call them? The first thing I got was a warning about very long wait times...
Idk how California does it, but in my state if you get a ticket the cop writes on your ticket when your court date will be. This is also the last date that you have to pay your ticket by. I got a ticket for rolling a stop sign, showed up to the court date but the cop who wrote it did not. My ticket got taken off. If you have group legal though Google, contact them. I bet they would help in this case. Our group legal at Microsoft helps with speeding tickets, coworker got a $400 ticket in California taken off by one 20 minute phone call
If you want to be able to pay the ticket , google it. Then bing it to analyze how good bing is, or not.
Just bing it man. How much could that hurt?
California has insane tickets, so I'm not surprised. Hiring attorney doesnt make any sense, you'll pay this money to attorney. You're not getting any points in your record, this is not a moving violation.
Yes. It’s probably 0.1% of your TC or less anyways.
Dear god don’t discount it that way. This is how the “nickel and dime” mentality of CAs ridiculous legislation flourishes.