Yeah, it only took up 2 hours of my time and cost me and extra $60, but it was worth it to not get points.

A bad record would've gotten me points too.

One of my two tickets was recent so maybe he was thinking he would curb my recent spate of speed by hitting me in the wallet.

I just find it fustrating( and I am sure you must too) that after all was said and done that it came down to your record over the last 8 years. So if you were going 90 MPH and had a clean record, would you just get away with court costs? Also, How could the judge justify the ticket/fine if the trooper said he was ok with your plea? The whole thing just sounds like a scam to get people into court and then get some sort of money out of them. One question, Did they ever get into the fact that the trooper clocked you going in the other direction? Is that a possible/ valid reading?
But I guess if you are satisfied with the result then the whole thing was with the effort. The no points will save you on your insurance in the long run.

Math, I can't speak for the entire state of Florida, but the city of Jacksonville has become one big speed trap over the last 3 months. There must be absolutely NO crime here, because every cop seems to be on traffic duty. It is a total scam, they are just looking to create revenue for the city, but the idea is NOT to get people going to court. Most will just pay the fine, which is what they "bank" on.

there are small towns around here that hire cops to write tickets. They end up spending all the revenue they get from the tickets to pay for his salary. So they have few choices - have more tickets, get rid of the cop or raise taxes on the people of the town so the cop can keep writing the people that live there, their friends and family more tickets.

So, 5 mph over used to be a pass because the gun is't accurate enough - but now you get pulled over for that because no one is speeding anymore.

What are you going to do? Go to court? hahaha Judges don't care about justice.. it's all about revenue

it seems like the people that constantly break the law and are nothing but a headache get all the breaks imagineable. I have a friend who was attacked by someone high on drugs. She got her front tooth busted and had to spend thousands at the dentist. The loser was ordered to pay restitution or else.. ha. The cops don't have the resources to hunt the lunatic down.

I guess they are too busy writing silly speeding tickets. The real moral crisis of America

No I don't think anyone going 90 was going to get away with anything. Most of the people were 9 - 14 over the speed limit.

I don't think it was the two tickets in 8 years that did me in. I think it was the fact that my last ticket came only 2 months before this one. I assume the judge thought I was developing a lead foot and wanted to nip it in the bud.

The weird thing was the Trooper was adamant that his reading was correct with every case including mine but when push came to shove, he agreed to waive the fine and the points. It was the judge that decided to keep the fine and waive the points.

The whole scene was Doc Hollywood-ish. I thought they may put me to work to pay off my fine....

I usually ask to see the gun reading. Its gotten me off once, and gotten me seatbelt tickets along with the original ticket 4 times.

Probably all a con game if you ask me, playing good cop/bad cop.