If you have received a traffic ticket that you feel you did not deserve, you may wonder whether it is worth your time to go to court or if you should simply pay the fine.
Traffic violations are difficult to fight.
For this reason, many people who receive traffic tickets do not bother to go to court, even though they believe a court appearance might clear their record of the violation for which they have been cited. You will have to decide for yourself whether you want to take the time to fight a ticket. People normally associate traffic tickets with the ordinance violations heard in municipal, or city court. Traffic tickets are always issued in lieu of an arrest for municipal ordinance violations, sometimes issued for misdemeanor offenses, and never issued for felony offenses. Drivers charged with a violation are not placed under arrest, but instead are given a ticket which serves as a summons to court.