Legal Question in Traffic Law in North Carolina

Most District Attorney's will not allow a reduction to Improper Equipment to a pro se defendant without attending a driving school unless there is something wrong with the state's case. For example, if a stopping officer dies, moves away or has been implicated in some sort of wrong doing, the DA may take all of that officer's open cases and either dismiss them or offer plea bargains that they normally would not. However, each district has its own policies - it may simply be the case that in your district the DA allows reductions to Improper Equipment. Aside from the highly unlikely possibility of a dismissal, a written apology from the officer and a fat check from the State for your inconvenience - it doesn't get any better than a reduction to Improper Equipment. So if an ADA is offering you an IE without going to driving school and there's no defect in the state's case, then you should snatch that deal up because it is very unlikely that even an attorney could do anything more other than keep you from wasting your own time going to court.