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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel
Would seem like there would have to be posted signage for the ticket to stick.
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Some law has to be broken.
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Originally Posted by TnBob
Be a shame if they had just popped thru the neighborhood because one of their parents knew someone was looking for a house in that development.
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Nobody needs any excuse to travel on a public street.
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Originally Posted by retmil46
... the cop became quite belligerent and basically told her to just STFU and take the ticket, "or I"ll find something else to charge you with too".
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Which is illegal.
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Shortly thereafter, they were contacted by a judge -
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Also illegal, or against rules of judicial conduct.
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not attorney, but sitting judge - from said locality, who for a gratuity that amounted to about 2/3 of the fine on the ticket, offered to "nullify" said ticket so it wouldn't be reported against her license and place her on "probation" for six months - but if she got ticketed again during her "probation", then he'd have to lower the boom on her.
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A town close to me ran a scam like that for several years, and finally got the boom lowered on them. People complained about them for years, but The State didn't bother to care until it was owed about a half a million dollars in un-forwarded fines. They also had a second scam running where they misappropriated federal grant money to pay their salaries.
UNITED STATES v. MANN, No.
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