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Old Dec 7, 2009 | 07:11 PM
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Get a lawyer. You don't want to leave your fate in your hands when it comes to wreckless tickets.
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by marlinspike
You're on probation? You do NOT want a c1 misdemeanor. Get a lawyer from the get-go. $400 isn't that much money.
yea, i guess your right. I'll probably end up getting me one anyway. I'm trying to get off probation before court anyways. Like I said, my PO wants me off ASAP. I guess $400 may not be a lot of money. I'm just learning how much money really is after I figured out I was blowing through money left and right. I guess it's time to call Senator Norment again. Donate more money to him. I paid him $750 for pretty much dropping 3 stupid ass felonies to pretty much a slap on the wrist.
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yea, i guess your right. I'll probably end up getting me one anyway. I'm trying to get off probation before court anyways. Like I said, my PO wants me off ASAP. I guess $400 may not be a lot of money. I'm just learning how much money really is after I figured out I was blowing through money left and right. I guess it's time to call Senator Norment again. Donate more money to him. I paid him $750 for pretty much dropping 3 stupid ass felonies to pretty much a slap on the wrist.
Either he's giving you insanely discounted rates, or he's feeling guilty about the 160k/yr W&M pays him on top of everything else he makes.
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 07:32 PM
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What'd you do to get 3 felonies?
Definitely get a lawyer.
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 07:48 PM
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Originally Posted by marlinspike
Either he's giving you insanely discounted rates, or he's feeling guilty about the 160k/yr W&M pays him on top of everything else he makes.
that may be it... I really don't know the average cost of lawyers. Just something that doesn't pop in my everyday conversation.

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What'd you do to get 3 felonies?
Definitely get a lawyer.
I was watching 2 of my dumb ass friends make bottle bombs in my friends back yard. Than some nosie neighbor thought we were setting off fire works and called the cops. Apparently each bomb consist of 1 felony. It was really stupid, they charged the 4 people that were there even though everyone told the fire marshall me and my other friend were just watching, and it wasn't like they were blowing shit up. Not the greatest highlight of my life. My lawyer and PO thought it was pretty stupid they'd charge 4 high school students with something serious like that.
well me and my friend who didn't do anything realized who we shouldn't hang out with after that.
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that may be it... I really don't know the average cost of lawyers. Just something that doesn't pop in my everyday conversation.
I've got a pricelist for a firm in a different state. Felonies start at $2000.
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here's my advice:

1) find a dumbass that owns a spec v
2) trade engines with him
3) learn to read your fucking speedometer.

this way you have a stock altima that couldn't possibly get away from you and he can run 12s.

people that do what you did to get the ticket piss me off in the first place. if you're going to turn in just a few hundred yards, why in the fuck were you bothering to pass someone?
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by marlinspike
I've got a pricelist for a firm in a different state. Felonies start at $2000.
I guess I had a good deal than. Tommy Norment is a good guy though. He knew that Kililea was a hard nose, He had told me he was going to talk to Powell about it and was going to appeal if he had to. He wasn't going to let me get any felonies and told me he'd appeal it to the supreme court if he had to, but we knew it wasn't needed. Kililea comes to the store I work in all the time, and she seems very anti-social. Even while I was a cashier at where I used to work, and I would try to be nice and start conversations like I do with everybody, and she just wouldn't talk.
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by jarrett2k
here's my advice:

1) find a dumbass that owns a spec v
2) trade engines with him
3) learn to read your fucking speedometer.

this way you have a stock altima that couldn't possibly get away from you and he can run 12s.

people that do what you did to get the ticket piss me off in the first place. if you're going to turn in just a few hundred yards, why in the fuck were you bothering to pass someone?
Did you not read it at all? I was in the left lane, and I was trying to get in the right lane so I can get off my exit. I mean I can't just drive through the car and call it a day.
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by marlinspike
I've got a pricelist for a firm in a different state. Felonies start at $2000.
I got charged with 4 felonies and 2 misdemeanors and paid $2500. Looooong story, but guilty by association, everything dropped, 100hours community service, 1 year of probation, complete the young offender's program and I was done.



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