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Maybe an Eastchester Police Officer caught you speeding by laser or radar on Wilmont Road or California Road. Perhaps you were pulled over by the Westchester County Police for tailgating (i.e. following too closely) on the Hutchinson River Parkway. Or the police could have been hiding around the stop sign you didn’t totally stop for on Garth Road. Whatever the case, you have a traffic ticket and have to appear in Eastchester Town Court.

You don’t want to see your insurance rates skyrocket or risk a license suspension. The only way to do this is to plea not guilty and fight the ticket. However, the court only meets once a week on a Wednesday and you, like the rest of us, have a job. And even if you do that how do you defend yourself? Who do you talk to? How do you cross-examine the police officer? By retaining our services we can defend you professionally without the need for you to EVER appear in court. We know who speak with to work out the best plea bargain possible and, if unacceptable then professionally defend you against the charges.

Still not convinced you should hire a lawyer? If you appear in Eastchester court on your own, here’s what you can expect. The court only meets once a week on Wednesdays. But it’s not just for traffic and speeding tickets. It’s for (1) felony arraignments, (2) general misdemeanor criminal, (3) landlord tenant, (4) small claims, (5) building and town code violations, (6) traffic tickets, and (7) parking tickets. On any given day there are over 100 traffic tickets alone. The calendar can easily have over 200 matters in total on in a given day.

You must be there at 9:30 a.m. sharp or risk defaulting and having your license suspended. You, and every one else who is charged with a traffic or speeding ticket will be herded like sheep into a meeting room where you will meet with the town attorney. There, one at a time, the town attorney will discuss your case with you and make a plea offer. If you accept his offer, great. If not, then you’re on for trial.

But wait, there’s more. Even if you take the offer you still have lots of languishing. The file has to be marked with the plea bargain and you, along with everyone else who made a deal, is herded back down to the courtroom. The files are placed to the side of the judge, who you must formally go before to have your rights explained to you, allocute the plea, and be sentenced. If there was nothing else going on to do 50 or so of these allocutions could easily take an hour. But there are things going on – lots of things. The court could be doing arraignments, conferencing civil matters, or taking oral arguments on a motion. Eventually, when there is a lull in the activity, they will call the traffic tickets for formal plea and sentencing. This may occur in the late morning or afternoon.

And if you decide to take your case to trial the pain train continues. You DON’T get a trial that day. Instead, the matter is adjourned to another day for trial. This is done around not your schedule, but the police officer’s schedule, of which the town attorney has absolutely no idea at that time when the officer will be working a day shift on a Wednesday. So you are told that you will be notified by mail of the trial date that is unilaterally set by the court contingent upon the police officer’s availability with no input from you or consideration of your schedule. This likely means a second day you need to take off from work.

On this second day you again have to be there at 9:30 a.m. However, the traffic ticket trials are the LAST THING done. The trial usually takes place mid to late afternoon. So why show up at 9:30 a.m.? Because there are days when the calendar is short and if they call your case and you’re not there the matter will be marked defaulted and your driving privileges will be suspended. This will cause you to have to go to court, post a bond, pay a fee to clear your suspension, and then have to go through this fire drill A THIRD TIME.

Clearly it is much better to hire the professional services of our office to represent you in Eastchester Town Court. You will NEVER have to take off from work, NEVER have to appear in court, and NEVER have to come to our office. We offer a MONEY BACK GUARANTEE if we do not reduce or eliminate the points that you have been charged with. Call today.