Beat Your Ticket: Go to Court & Win (Beat Your Ticket)

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Summary: Great Advice for Newbies and Veteran Freedom Fighters Alike!
Review: Lets face it. Its NOT about safety. Traffic citations - especially seatbelt citations - are about money. And power. And stripping back the constitution. If it were about safety, they wouldn't put so much focus on citations so much, they would straighten dangerous curves, force property owners to cut back brush that causes blind intersections, install traffic control devices where needed and work harder to get the most dangerous class of drivers - those who drive while intoxicated - off the roads and into jails.

Instead, they choose to focus on the issuance of traffic citations. Enforcement campaigns like Click it or Ticket are designed to issue as many citations as possible, often with little regard to the law and motorists' rights. When you are tired of making donations to the government and enriching insurance companies, grab a copy of Beat Your Ticket: Go To Court & Win.

Sure, there are many other books on this topic. This one is different. If you have read the others, you know they are written with the attitude that the system cares about innocence and guilt, right and wrong, fair and unfair. All you have to do is tell a good story (true or not) and you'll get off. It doesn't work that way. The system only cares about finding you guilty and getting your money. Other titles skip over very important legal terminology and civil procedure. This one doesn't.

This is the only book I have read on the topic that explains what a motion is, how to prepare and file one and when one should be filed. It is also the only title to discuss in any meaningful way the discovery process and how a Defendant can use it to his/her advantage. It discusses when and how to object, how to behave in court and a good primer on how to prepare for your case.

As someone who has spent an enormous amount of time in traffic court, this book is the best I've ever read on the topic. In 2003, I took seven traffic citations to court. I won six of them. While I learned most of the information contained in this title through a process of trial and error, it gave me some new ideas and did teach an old dog more than one new trick.

I would recommend it for anyone who is thinking of taking their ticket to court and intends to (or has to) win the case.

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Summary: Very Useful for lawyers & nonlawyers
Review: The author's description of defenses to speeding tickets is very clear and detailed. He describes the classes of speeding laws and the procedures for dealing with each class. Both lawyers and nonlawyers will find it very useful.

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Summary: Beat Your Ticket
Review: The information was good for the most part, however, some information is outdated.... for example, the book states that only 3 states consider laser an "unqualified legal seal" for determining speed. This information is outdated according to the Judge in Oregon Court today!!!

None of the ploys indicated in the book helped me at all in court and I was calm, prepared and articulate. I observed others in court yesterday and today to have had more of a reduction in fines, than I did,when they did not testify at all in their own defense!

The decrease in fine I received today hardly covered the cost of the book, never mind the hours of reading, researching the law library and observing trial proceedure.

I think it would be wise for Attny Brown to update the book in the near future!