[luck-bad-->worse]: arrested saturday looong (but interesting)

[vwscir88@hotmail.com (brett cooke)]

in my experiences here in ohio( not that i've ever been in trouble with the 
law before!) the best thing you can do is get your liscense back before you 
go to court. chances are it will be dissmissed if you do. as far as the 
rights reading, it's your word vs. the cops. the cops win this one 95% of 
the time. not to mention it's only a get out of jail free card if you 
admitted to driving w/o a license. in this case i don't think it applies 
because they knew you were under suspension w/o you admitting to it( if you 
even did).
   good luck
     brett


>From: "Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: [luck-bad-->worse]: arrested saturday looong (but interesting)
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:39:13 +0000
>
>so i'm supposed to be on for a lovely 36 hour shift starting saturday
>morning. drag my tired ass out of bed and drive about 1 out of the 2 miles 
>i
>need to drive. i forgot my wallet, as i often do when i wear scrubs, at
>home. get pulled over cuz the cop i guess wanted to check out the temp
>plates on the new roc (you have 30 days to get real ones in georgia). next
>thing i know i'm in cuffs b/c of a suspended license (i have a mass 
>license,
>but my car is registered/insured in ga) and no proof of insurance (i keep
>forgetting you need this in ga--i usually keep the card in my car, but with
>the new one and all...so i put it in my wallet) totally blindsided, had no
>idea that it was suspended or why. i offer to take the cop the 1 mile to my
>house to get this straightened. uh uh. my neighbor happens to drive by,
>offers to get the wallet for me. nope. this cop was a total bitch. didn't
>care at all that the reason for no ins card/weird tags was cuz i totalled 
>my
>car AT THIS SAME INTERSECTION 3 wks ago (she even verified it with the
>station!) so i get cuffed and taken to the dekalb co jail, where i'm 
>greeted
>with niceties such as "look at the white boy--fresh meat!". no joke. i 
>loved
>this. call the g/f asleep in my bed: "hey, i'm in jail, get a piece of
>paper" "but i just fell asleep again!". yeah, i'm fine, thanks for asking,
>beeotch.
>in her defense, she did end up forging my sig on a check to get the $1500 
>to
>bail me out, after 10 hours in jail. not one of those country club ones,
>either. this was the real kind. no fun. not to mention the ordeal of 
>getting
>my car out of impound yesterday, which i won't go into.
>so today i call the mass registry to find out why the hell my license was
>suspended. after 45 mins on hold, i'm informed it's suspended cuz new
>hamshire suspended it. wtf. call n.h. dmv. they suspended it for an unpaid
>speeding ticket 1.5 yrs ago. "but i paid that ticket!" apparently it 
>arrived
>5 days after the deadline, so they added fees to it. they sent me a letter
>notifying me of the deadline and default judgement if i didn't meet it, but
>i just moved and didn't get it. they even have it in their records that the
>letter went undelivered. so now i have the following options:
>
>1) pay the $50 late fee, pay the $100 nh license reinstatement fee, and the
>$50 mass reinstatement fee.
>2) clerk at the court says i can appeal the default judgement against me.
>she thinks i have a reasonable story, for whatever that's worth. this has
>the advantage of having a plausible defense for when i go to trial; if they
>overturn the original suspension, it would be hard to make this charge
>stick, i would think. downside is it'll take at least 2 weeks. no driving 
>in
>the meantime. i'll be on vacation next week, which softens the blow a bit.
>3) do the above, but try applying for a ga license and hope they don't 
>check
>with mass to see if my license is valid. unlikely, but i may try anyway.
>
>at any rate, i'll at least run things by a lawyer (any in the crowd?).
>interesting sidenote is that they didn't read me my rights, and i never
>signed anything indicating that they were read/i understood them. i've been
>told this is a get out of jail free card. anybody know anything of this?
>
>interesting sidenote #2: the only times i have ever been pulled over, got 
>in
>an accident, or ran into trouble of any kind while driving has been when i
>thought that i was doing absolutely nothing wrong. 95% of the time i'm
>breaking some kind of law and aware of it, but have never been busted for
>these legitimate offences. strange.
>
>short story: my life sucks. for those keeping score at home, that's one
>totalled scirocco and one miserable arrest in 3 weeks.
>
>-michael "these boots were made for walkin'" abatzis
>
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