Q: I am on court supervision for two tickets and I just got another unlawful number of passengers ticket. What should I do?
I have been convicted for one speeding ticket and I am currently on supervision for two of them. Total I have 4 tickets, but will my court supervision get revoked because of the unlawful number of passengers ticket? I am under 18
A:
...quite frankly, its time to hire a lawyer to assist in this matter. You are at EXTREME risk of suspension and at this point, I don't know for certain if there is anything that can be directly done to help prevent the suspension. Rather, the best I can see from a cursory look at the facts you provided is a triage approach to minimize the length of the suspension.
That isn't to say you CAN'T walk away with a license intact but the chances are very slim and will require at bar minimum some legal maneuvering to prevent a suspension. Why? A suspension results from 2 moving violation convictions in 24 months. You are under 18 so ALL of these are within 24 months of each other. Additionally, supervision is only possible twice in a 12 month period and since you are still on supervision, that means they were recent and within at most 6 months by most courts' practices. Lastly, all 4 tickets are considered points eligible moving violations meaning every one of them counts towards that suspension limit.
To make matters worse, the violation of your supervision may require a lawyers assistance to actually prevent. In some counties such as Kane County, notice of a petition to revoke supervision is waived as a prerequisite for a guilty plea. This means you may not receive notice and once ANY of your supervisions are revoked, you WILL be suspended.
What should you do? You need to speak to your parents and schedule a free consultation with a traffic lawyer because right now, I have next to no doubt that you WILL be suspended if you try to handle this yourself and hiring an attorney MAY be able to prevent this or at least minimize the bleeding as it were with a shorter suspension term.
Hope that helps!
A: One last thing...DO NOT under ANY circumstances mail in the ticket. I can promise with absolute certainty that it will result in a suspension from what you described. I can promise you supervision by mail IS NOT going to be a realistic possibility and at this point, it technically isn't legally possible let alone the fact that your record makes this unlikely.
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