Fighting Fort Worth Tickets - The Ticket Defense

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Fighting Fort Worth Tickets - The Ticket Defense

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Fort Worth Municipal Court is backlogged – that’s my opening statement! If you receive a citation in Fort Worth you are given 10 days to respond to the Court or else your citation will become eligible for warrant. In truth, it is rare for a ticket to go to warrant status very quickly. Typically, a warrant will be issued a few months after the original due date passes and the defendant has not contacted the court. Defendants should remember that although the warrant process can be slow, once a warrant has been issued the costs of the ticket increase dramatically and you will have to contact an attorney or bonds company to get the warrant lifted. Key point – save yourself the headache and the extra money and deal with the ticket early on.

Currently, the process in the Fort Worth Municipal Court can take quite a long time. In the outlining areas and smaller courts, once a not guilty plea is entered the pretrial date will be set within about 2-4 weeks. In the Fort Worth Municipal Court, once a not guilty plea is entered it will take the court upwards of a year to set a case for its first pretrial setting. What this means for defendants is that doors will begin to open. Officers don’t remember the particular stop a year or two in the past. The officer who wrote the ticket is no longer employed by the city. Paperwork or the actual ticket are lost (it happens more than you would think!). Prosecutors want to clear their case load by dismissing mass amounts of tickets.
Not paying a ticket in the beginning and pleading not guilty yourself or hiring an attorney to help with the process can be greatly beneficial to the defendant because time is the defendant’s friend. By hiring an attorney the defendant can avoid having to be at court at all and will have an opportunity for an outright dismissal or at the minimum a great likelihood to keep the ticket off your driving record, off your criminal record, and off your insurance record.

Let the Law Office of J. Chance Smith help you!