Nassau County traffic ticket

If you have been issued a Nassau County traffic ticket, you may be thinking about contacting a Nassau County traffic ticket attorney. Many people wonder if fighting a Nassau traffic ticket is worth it. For some people, a Nassau traffic ticket can have a major impact on their career. Professional drivers with commercial driver’s licenses can be severely impacted by even minor traffic violations. Professional drivers can only accumulate a certain number of points or else face losing their commercial license, job, and career.

For the average person who does not drive much for work, a Nassau County traffic ticket can affect their finances due to increased insurance rates, court costs, and fines such as DMV driver responsibility assessment. Fighting a Nassau County traffic ticket can sometimes be less expensive than pleading guilty and paying for increased insurance rates and fines if the defense is successful and the case is dismissed.

If you receive a Nassau County traffic ticket, most likely you will be directed to respond to a Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (“NCTPVA”) located at 801 Axinn Avenue, Garden City, NY. Alternatively, if the village police officer stops you on Long Island you may receive a Nassau traffic ticket returnable to a Village Justice Court. Our firm is very experienced in handling both types of courts.  Our attorneys have been handling traffic tickets here for over 16 years. They are very experienced in dealing with traffic prosecutors and appearing before the NCTPVA judges and village justice courts.

Unlike in five boroughs of New York City where traffic tickets are returnable to the local Traffic Violations Bureaus, where there are no prosecutors and no ability to engage in plea bargaining, NCTPVA employs traffic prosecutors who can conference the cases related to Nassau County traffic tickets with the defendants or their attorneys and reach favorable disposition. Moreover, NCTPVA allows attorneys representing clients with Nassau County traffic tickets to appear in Court without clients and resolve their tickets. In the rare instances of the especially egregious charge and/or bad driver’s records, the NCTPVA Judge may request a traffic attorney to return to Court with their client so the Judge may reprimand the client and ensure that the motorist takes these charges and its consequences seriously.

Suppose your driving record is clean and your Nassau traffic ticket is not a very high speed or some other severe charge. In that case, an experienced traffic attorney will likely be able to negotiate with the traffic prosecutor a favorable disposition of your Nassau County traffic ticket with zero points and some fines. Even in the case of high speeding tickets, it is possible to negotiate a reduction to a low-point non-speeding ticket in some instances. Please note, that NCTPVA will always run your New York State lifetime driving abstract. Moreover, they will see the original charges including the pending unresolved charges anywhere in the State of New York, and any resulting convictions, as well as suspensions and revocations.

Sometimes we get calls from the long-distance truck drivers who are not residents of the State of New York and for whom it is difficult to appear in person in Court. An experienced Nassau County traffic attorney can appear on such a client’s behalf and resolve a Nassau County traffic ticket without the client’s presence. Often such Nassau County traffic tickets involve various trucking equipment violations. We will discuss such violations with you and advise you regarding how to provide proof of corrections for such equipment violations to minimize the court fines and surcharges or even have all tickets dismissed if the repairs are done quickly.

There are various approaches to obtaining the favorable results for our clients. Some cases cannot be proven in court. A police officer only needs probable cause to issue a ticket, which is a much lower standard than reasonable doubt. Sometimes officers make mistakes because of incorrect observations and mistakes about the law. An attorney may be able to help a person fight a Nassau County traffic ticket when there is insufficient proof.

If you have questions about fighting your traffic ticket, contact Sharifov & Associates, PLLC. Hiring a Nassau County traffic ticket lawyer can help you get a better deal than you could have on your own and may even help you save your license or get your case dismissed.