I know there a few lawyers who browse and post on this site. (MadMax...and a few others (sorry)) I had a question about the procedures after getting a traffic ticket. My wife did defensive driving back in October for a previous ticket, but recently, she picked up another one. I told her Texas only allows defensive driving once per year. I told user to ask for deferred ajudification, if they allow her to do it. Does she have to ask trial by judge or trial by jury to get that? Or is there any other options she can choose?
Im not a lawyer but i was in the same situation. When i went up to the court the judge already mentioned it as one of the options you can take along with defensive driving. I know it can be nerve racking asking a judge a question, but when they are giving you the options just ask if you may take that. From what i hear they don't have to give you that option but you can ask for it if they don't say anything about it. In my case she basically said Trial by judge or jury, then defensive driving and if you are not elegible i will consider you for Deferred Adjudification. Hope that helps any.
im not a lawyer BUT: basically you go up to the judge. you ask for deferred adjudication. most likely the judge will mention that option anyway but more then likely unless its some crazy ticket your wife will get it. you pay the normal amount of fine (usually but the judge can set the fine at whatever) and dont get a ticket within 3-6 months (the judge can set the time but its usually around 3-6 months) and its all good.
