Multiple Traffice Tickets in Illinois?

Question

My son, who is 18, received 2 tickets in July. One for speeding and one for not having his driver's license on him. He was told he had to appear in court for both of the tickets and we found out that was true, he could not just show his license to the circuit clerk and get the ticket dropped. His court date is set for this Tuesday. He received another speeding ticket and a ticket for not having his insurance card with him yesterday. He has another court date for those two tickets. I have been trying to find out if he can get any of them dropped (the license or the insurance card) and if he needs to ask for court supervison, or if he is going to lose his license. Anyone in Illinois know what we might expect to happen in court or what we need to do??

Answer 1

He won't get his license revoked, it has to be 3 moving violation convictions within 12 months.  He'll just have to show up for court and prove he had insurance at the time of the accident...and that one gets dropped.

Out of the 2 speeding tickets, he should be able to get supervision on 1 or both of them.  The first one he should definitely go to court and get supervision from the judge (not traffic school).  For the second one, you definitely should be able to get supervision as well.  If he didn't have to show up for the insurance card thing, I would suggest just marking the box on the ticket to go to traffic school.  They usually limit court supervision to twice within 12 months.

He should be real careful though from here on out.  If he gets a 3rd ticket, he's kind of playing with fire.  I got 1 ticket in March of 07 and got supervision, got another in april and went to traffic school, and got another in sept and somehow got supervision again.  Technically, I was violating each supervision when I got the next ticket.  

If you ask the sticklers on yahoo answers, they will say that 3 tickets and you're dead meat (I know, because I asked the same question and everyone overreacts).  In reality, my lawyer said that if they award you court supervision they don't really check to see if you've violated it.  They would need to call you back for a hearing and the courts are too busy for that.

Your son should be fine though.  Insurance card is not a big deal AT ALL.  And they are pretty good about supervision.

Answer 2

get an attorney before going to court--do it now before he loses his license-----why the hel%% is he not carrying license and insurance card---is he stupid?