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Traffic Court - New Records

Posted on March 03, 2010
Google Analytics defaults to the last 31 days. We just hit new records for town-court.com - over 190,000 visits and over 400,000 pageviews in 31 days. To put it another way, we are now on a pace to help over 2 million people a year.

Confrontation Clause in New York

Posted on February 25, 2010
In January the US Supreme Court reaffirmed its recent decision about the Confrontation Clause. The new case is Briscoe v. Virginia. I wrote about this in the context of DWI in NY - Melendez-Diaz.New York's highest Court addressed Melendez-Diaz. Here are some quotes from People v...

Tales from the Script

Posted on February 22, 2010
I'm reading this new book, Tales from the Script, and I love it. It's about screenwriting and filmmaking, providing great insights from screenwriters, and also from other players in Hollywood. This is my friend Peter Hanson's baby. He used to write for Metroland, and has a lot of friends here in the Albany area...

Dealing With Police: Film

Posted on February 02, 2010
The group Flex Your Rights has a new film. The premiere will be shown live on the web at: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police. I'm looking forward to it.Their previous film is on YouTube - Busted: A Citizen's Guide to Police Encounters.

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How long does a ticket stay on your record in NY?

Posted on January 23, 2010
Speeding tickets and other traffic infractions that happen in New York will show up on a NY driving record. First of all, it only shows up on your record after you've been convicted (if you plead guilty to something or if you lose at trial). Second, in my experience they seem to stay on a record for about three-and-a-half years...

Adrian Peterson: Speeding and Knowing Your Speed

Posted on December 04, 2009
The hot traffic court story of the week is Vikings running back Adrian Peterson ticketed for going 109 mph in a 55 zone. See the story on ESPN.My favorite quote from the story is this from Peterson: I need to be more aware of the speed I was going .....

Adsense Ads and Bounce Rate

Posted on December 02, 2009
Do AdSense ads increase the bounce rate?I've heard concerns about AdSense making a site look spammy in the past, and saw the idea mentioned in this discussion about link building and advertising.The concern some in the SEO community have is that webmasters will not want to link to sites that have ads on them...

Traffic Lawyer Directory Statistics

Posted on November 21, 2009
Noticed an interesting set of statistics about our directory of traffic lawyers just now. The image below shows the number of visits to the various pages within the directory. Click on the image to enlarge it. The stats are for the last October 21 to November 20...

Texas speeding and traffic fines and points

Posted on November 18, 2009
Searching the web for something else, we came across the image below. It describes the fine and point schedule for Texas traffic tickets. If you click on it, it should enlarge.Looks like on the high end, it's almost $500 for a very high speed in a work zone with workers present...

Out-of-state tickets and Massachussetts drivers

Posted on November 18, 2009
Prospective clients frequently ask how their NY ticket will affect them in their home state. Since it's next door, we get this question a lot from Massachusetts drivers. One of the best places to get the answer to this question is your state's DMV. In Massachusetts it is known as the RMV - Registry of Motor Vehicles...

NY Tickets and NJ Insurance

Posted on October 27, 2009
We spoke recently with a NJ insurance agent. He had received a ticket in NY which was an 1110a. This was a "road-side writedown" where the cop was giving him a break from a speed. The agent told us that an 1110a would increase insurance rates by as much $900 per year for three years...

The Supreme Court on the DWI Exception to the Constitution

Posted on October 22, 2009
The Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal on a drunk driving case that was dismissed. Virginia's highest court threw out the conviction in Harris v. Commonwealth (a pdf file). It found that the stop was unconstitutional - based only on an anonymous tip...

Speeding Ticket Story: A Tough Situation

Posted on October 18, 2009
Most of our speeding ticket cases are straightforward. We get hired, get all the information in order, contact the court and prosecutor, negotiate a reduction to something less, and let the client know the result and what they need to do. There's more to it than that, but that's the essence...

The Ghost of Altamont

Posted on October 16, 2009
Halloween is coming up, so it's time for a ghost story:

DWI Story: Listening to the Radio While Intoxicated

Posted on October 09, 2009
For a new kick, I'm starting a series of stories about past cases I've handled. This one's a DWI story, from a few years ago. As part of my pattern for stories about cases, some elements will be fictionalized mainly to protect the client. In this case there was a trial, so the truth is really a matter of public record, though practically it would be difficult to find the record if you don't know

Albany Lawyer Ages

Posted on August 26, 2009
I guess it had to happen after I turned 40 a few years ago. I'm really starting to notice the aging process.Examples: We attended an intern's "Kegs on a Deck" party. Some attendees did "keg stands". This is a handstand (supported by others) on top of a keg while drinking from the tap...

The Wedding Photo Story

Posted on August 26, 2009
Yes, the Albany Lawyer has a wedding photo story. This has been one of my favorite stories for the past six years, and I finally get to tell it. Some details have been changed to protect the innocent and perhaps the guilty too.Back in 2003 there was a wedding...

A Good Lawyer: Why Experience Matters

Posted on August 23, 2009
A conversation with a law student led to something coalescing in my mind about good lawyers. Experience matters when you hire a lawyer. I'm biased, but I think trial experience is critical. Of course it's most important when you need a trial lawyer. Even for other kinds of law, it can still matter...

Joel Dykstra

Posted on August 22, 2009
Interesting website I happened upon - it's about a guy from South Dakota who ran for the US Senate: Joel Dykstra. Love the name - we were big Lenny Dykstra fans back in the 90s when he played for the Mets. The two are probably not related, though the name suggests they have Dutch ancestry...

San Bernardino Superior Court

Posted on August 18, 2009
Not sure why, but it seems like a lot of people are searching for the San Bernardino Superior Court. Maybe it's because of the corruption scandal in the Assessor's office: LA Times story. But we think they just write a lot of speeding tickets in the traffic court...

NY DWI, Crawford and Melendez-Diaz

Posted on July 30, 2009
It looks like NY DWI cases will become more interesting in light of Melendez-Diaz (129 S.Ct. 2527), which just came down from the Supreme Court in late June. That case follows on the 2004 Crawford (541 US 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354) decision on the Confrontation Clause in the Sixth Amendment...

Do Points Transfer? Out-of-state tickets are not that simple ...

Posted on July 22, 2009
This is one of the most common question we get: Do points transfer? Or: "Will the points transfer to my home state?"The short and misleading answer is No. The points themselves do not transfer to other states.So what does happen? In most situations, the state where you got the ticket will report any conviction to your home state...

Short URLs

Posted on July 01, 2009
Making life easier for phone calls with clients. We registered a new domain name: rlaw1.com. It's quicker to tell them that than redlichlaw.com. And the rlaw1.com domain just redirects to our traffic page.

Garage Party - A Fun Way to Reduce DWI

Posted on June 28, 2009
We had a garage party last night. With all the DWI cases I handle where people had a few drinks and then drove home, this idea came to me. Wouldn't it be nice if you could go somewhere, have a few drinks, and not worry about driving home?There's more to this...

Guest Blogger

Posted on June 24, 2009
Happy to have a guest blogger on our blog. My associate David Cooper is now contributing. His first blog post is on suspended licenses.

Suspended License: Why you should care and act quickly

Posted on June 23, 2009
Why should you care? If you are driving in New York State and you have forgotten to answer a ticket or never heard back from the court you may be suspended. If your license or privilege to drive (for out-of-state drivers) in New York is suspended and you are stopped while driving in New York, there is a very good chance you will be charged with a crime, known as Aggravated Unlicensed Operation in

Why shouldn't I hire a lawyer to beat my ticket?

Posted on June 11, 2009
Saw something on the web that got me laughing. Back in '05 I did a post about lawyer marketing on the web. I critiqued some websites that claimed to help people with their tickets.Well, someone from speedticketbeaters -dot- com tried to post a comment on that old blog post...

Drunk Driving articles in the Wall Street Journal

Posted on June 11, 2009
Two good articles in the Wall Street Journal this week.Yesterday there was a discussion of drunk driver data by The Numbers Guy - Carl Bialik. It talks about statistics on the risks of driving at varying blood-alcohol content (BAC) levels. Bialik briefly mentions flaws in breath testing...

County Court update

Posted on June 09, 2009
A new milestone for our court directory - we now have 6000 courts in our database - see below.There's about 1500 in NY; 240 in CA; about 200 in the New England states (MA, CT, RI, VT and NH - we haven't done Maine yet); 600 in NJ; 168 in FL; GA has 500 and we're still adding more; 132 in Illinois; nearly 300 between MD, VA and DC; 220 in NC; roughly 600 apiece in Ohio and PA; and there's

New York Speeding Ticket - Piece by Piece

Posted on June 08, 2009
We added a new page to our website with a breakdown of a typical New York speeding ticket. Please post any comments or suggestions on this blog post.

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