openryan
State Researcher
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UTOC-45-44 wrote:
Usually, I think the officer can take your license as a promise to appear in court, if you refuse to sign the ticket...
I still am wondering why he was taken out of the car for not signing...
--Thanks for the links as well!
UTOC-45-44 wrote:
Good, then this guy really didn't have a good reason to not to sign it. Arguing with a cop after he has written the ticket is not the way to go, take it up with the judge. I have gotten 2 tickets ripped up the next day after they were both written to me on the night prior -- I signed for them at the time. They threw them out when I called the department the next day.openryan wrote:Signing the ticket should have been a big deal... every ticket that I had been issued, I had signed... usually in all the states I have gotten tickets, you sign the front as a promise to either show up in court or to take care of the ticket, not an admission of guilt... and on the back you can sign again to plead guilty to mail it in (pleading guilty is a seperate signature...
I looked for a Utah ticket online, can't find one, if anyone can, I'd be really interested in seeing it.
On the botom of this link http://publicsafety.utah.gov/Citations/citations.htmlare some examples from the UHP. Click on each of the links below
http://publicsafety.utah.gov/Citations/citations_example1.html
http://publicsafety.utah.gov/Citations/citations_example2.html
http://publicsafety.utah.gov/Citations/citations_example3.html
They all say " WITHOUT ADMITING GUILT I PROMISE TO APPEAR AS DIRECTED HEREIN SIGNATURE OR.....OFFENSE TRACKING NUMBER: X____________________________
Usually, I think the officer can take your license as a promise to appear in court, if you refuse to sign the ticket...
I still am wondering why he was taken out of the car for not signing...
--Thanks for the links as well!