Q: What happens if I got community service for a ticket and got speeding ticket before it was completed.
Service will be done and first court date is before the second.
A:
From what you are describing, it appears that you were on court supervision for your first ticket with a community service requirement and during that period of supervision, you picked up a new ticket.
Typically, the state is required to file a petition to revoke on your suspension and you will receive notice of this. Even though this is typically the case, there are exceptions. For example, it is routine practice to require waiving of rights to notice on petitions to revoke in Kane County. In this situation, you will want to appear at any petition to revoke and attempt to negotiate a deal where you can keep your supervision despite the violation. You may wish to have an attorney appear for your or with you to resolve this matter though depending on the severity of the ticket, this isn't strictly speaking a necessity.
The best you can do is pay all the fines associated with this first ticket whose supervision you violated and do all community service. Showing compliance with the terms of the ticket's supervision will help in your negotiation to not revoke your supervision.
Aside from that, gauging how successful these negotiations will be requires much more information than is available right here. Factors such as which courthouse, what both offenses were, and how close together the tickets were in time all play a role in the success or failure of petition to revoke negotiations.
Hope that helps!
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