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Resolving outstanding failure to appear

there are some oustanding tickets all non moving voilations then failur to appear i entered into a domestic violace unit and was reastablishing redance

in a nother county with out trans it was inpossile to be at my court dates, now i can get my drivers licience issuied in a different state. i have tried to work through the telephone and have had no sucess

i was stopped last week and i will lose my job if they are aware of it i'm a new hire for the state and my job is in jeperdy at this point my husbund is still fleing felon 2 counts of feleony domistic voilonce he peled gulity to and hit and run. through the whole thing i truly don't know what all i have left behiend who do i clean up this mess


Asked on 2/19/02, 4:51 pm

3 Answers from Attorneys
David Diamond Diamond & Associates

Re: Resolving outstanding failure to appear

I can assist you with your failures to appear but it is difficult to completely understand your questions. Please contact me if you would like to discuss your matter in more detail. (310) 277-1707

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Answered on 2/20/02, 7:05 pm
Charles Aspinwall Charles S. Aspinwall, J.D., LLC

Re: Resolving outstanding failure to appear

You must appear in the court which issued the warrant in order to settle the matter. It cannot be done by someone else or by telephone.

If you cannot physically go there, then writing to the Judge is the next best thing if you don't have a lawyer.

Usually it is just a matter of money in ordinary traffic cases.

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Answered on 2/19/02, 5:14 pm
Victor Hobbs Victor E. Hobbs

Re: Resolving outstanding failure to appear

I intend to only suppliment the other attorney's answer. Your husband's problems are his alone. Your problem is the traffic tickets and failure to appear. However, you may need to appear at some point as a witness. So keep the D. A. informed of your where abouts. If you were to walk into the courts that have issued the bench warrants, and appear before the judge. The judge would simply fine you and give you time to pay the original fines and the cost of going to warrant. Which is between $50.00 to $150.00. Write a letter to the judge. If you don't know then address it to the presiding judge. And ask him/her to allow you to plead by letter or notarized Tahl form, and make payments on your fines.

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Answered on 2/19/02, 6:05 pm


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