What a lovely day today Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Went to court this morning for a ticket I got last month for running a red light. Only one word to say: DISMISSED!! woohoo!! Memphis, courts are awesome. Second ticket I have gotten since I have been here and both dismissed. It is a weird set-up, nothing like California. There is no judge, the city clerks do all the fines and dismissals, then if you want to fight it, you talk to a prosecutor, who also has the authority to dismiss it. That’s what happened in my case, I told him that I was on the fence about what to plea because I didn’t intentionally mean to run it, and that it was physically impossible for me to stop the car while going 50 miles per hour. He just said, “ok, dismissed” and that was that.