I have two speeding tickets that I need to get taken care of. I am going to take defensive driving for the first one and pay the second with deferred judification. Regarding D. J.: 1) Does Houston offer it? Just making sure... 2) The offense date of the ticket I'm taking defensive driving to clear is earlier than the other one, but the court date is later. So will that have any bearing on the d.j. grace period? Should I instead opt for d.j. at the later court date?
1) houston has it, it should mention it on the back of your ticket. 2) doesn't matter, you can do it either way. both d.j. and the defensive driving prevent anything from showing up on your record. the grace period you're on by accepting deferred judification only means you can't have a moving violation show up on your driving record. during that time you can get as many tickets as you want, just don't get convicted of any of them.
no problem, i've had my share and probably a few other peoples share of speeding tickets, etc. but my driving record is also as clean as can be so i've been very lucky so far. also hpd doesn't seem too concerned about showing up to court and backing up their tickets which has worked out pretty nice.
Ok, the judge for the first ticket is making me take defensive driving anyway for the deferred judification. That won't affect the other ticket being cleared via defensive driving, will it? Hope I didn't get ****ed.
that depends...I recall that you couldnt take DD twice in the same year.. or maybe you can take it since the first one wont be on your DPS record when you have to get it for the second one...
You can only take defensive driving once a year, I believe. I just cleared a ticket by taking the class at www.defensivedriving.com You can take as long as you want in each section, you can log off at anytime, and you can even go back to review most sections when certain questions appear, except for the final. It's a 6 hour course and it definitely beat sitting in a classroom for 8 hours. It was niiiiice to be able to complete the course while on work hours, too.
That's odd. I specifically told the judge that I was already taking it to clear another ticket. I hope they at least give me some lubrication.
That happened to me too. I was in the middle finishing up a Defensive Driving class. I then got another ticket and asked for deferred adjudication, and the prosecutor is making me take the class again. It sucks!
So is the ticket still going to be cleared? I don't mind taking the class twice at all, just worried about my allready back-breaking insurance rates going up with a ticket conviction.
it doesn't make any sense for her to tell you to take defensive driving if she knows you're taking it for another ticket. the law won't let you take it twice within the same year. so right now you have one ticket ready to be cleared and another one that you'll end up having to pay. i'd call the court and tell them the situation and why you can't take defensive driving for the d.j. what's supposed to happen with deferred judification, is you pay the complete fine for the ticket and in exchange receive the "probation" where you can't be convicted and also not have the stupid thing go on your record. sounds like the judge didn't understand what was going on.
