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Article #85: The Right Indiana Lawyer Can Mitigate the Effects of Multiple Traffic Tickets

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Whether you live in South Bend, Crown if you have accumulated those eighteen
Point, Indianapolis, Valparaiso, or points, a good lawyer can help prevent
another Indiana town or city, you may your driver's license from being
have racked up a few traffic tickets. You suspended. He does this by working with
may not think that traffic tickets the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dismiss
warrant engaging the services of a or excuse older traffic tickets for
criminal defense lawyer, but if you're relatively minor infractions. If, for
faced with the potential suspension of example, you have eighteen points but
your driver's license, you might want to have a ticket for speeding that is
think again. twenty-two months old, an attorney can
Although traffic tickets may not rank up work to get that old two-point ticket
there with weapon crimes, a federal dismissed. When he succeeds, you are left
felony, or even a misdemeanor, they can with only sixteen points and no cause for
be very serious. When you receive a license suspension.
traffic ticket for traffic violations Likewise, if you are what Indiana law
like failing to stop at a stop sign, terms a "habitual offender" by having
exceeding the posted speed limit, or not multiple moving violations and a serious
turning on your turn signal when you're offense like driving under the influence
making a lane change, you accumulate over the period of a decade, you may face
points against your driver's license. A a five- to ten-year suspension of your
minor offense may bring with it a license. Driving while your license is
two-point penalty, but a more serious suspended is considered a felony, and can
offense can do much more damage to your result in a suspended license for life.
driving record and have serious Considering the impact this could have on
consequences for your life and lifestyle. your life and livelihood, obtaining the
For example, if you were ticketed for services of a good lawyer is well
driving under the influence, for not advised.
pulling over for an emergency vehicle, or Traffic tickets may not seem like a big
for racing, you would accumulate eight deal, but they can result in missed time
points against your driving record. In at work, the loss of your driver's
Indiana, if you accumulate eighteen license, skyrocketing insurance rates,
points over twenty-four months, you may and heavy fines. If you're considered a
have your driver's license suspended. The repeat offender, you may even be
suspension could range from 30 days to subjected to a prison sentence. Serious
one year. Consider the impact that would traffic tickets should be taken
have on your ability to go to work, to seriously, and the right Indiana lawyer
take care of your family, and to do all can help you navigate the penalties
of the things that make life run associated with traffic tickets so you
smoothly. can move on with your life.
What many people do not realize is that,






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