Tag: traffic ticket

How Long Can an Officer Detain Me During a Traffic Stop?

Have you ever been cruising down the interstate, humming along to one of your favorites on the radio, and enjoying a beautiful day when you look in the rearview mirror and see flashes of blue and red?  You quickly look down at your speedometer.  11 m.p.h. over the speed limit. Your heart sinks.  You pull over to the side of the road. The officer approaches and tells you that you were speeding.  You swallow the lump in your throat as he asks for your license, registration, and insurance. You hand your documents to him and he briefly scans them over.  […]

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NOT GUILTY VERDICT IN UNLAWFUL PASSING TRIAL

Washington, Polk County, Iowa.  On February 26, 2021 a magistrate judge found our client not guilty following a bench trial for unsafe passing of a snow plow on a two-lane highway. We established that the snow plow does not yield at a stop sign, but rather slowly pulls out onto the highway at 10 mph.  Our client is 100 feet from the intersection traveling 45 mph.  There is no choice but to pass the snow plow on the left to avoid a rear-end collision.  The pass is nearly complete when the snow plow attempts a left-hand turn 200 feet ahead.  […]

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Don’t Let Those Traffic Tickets Pile Up: How the DOT Can Pull Your Driver’s License for Multiple Moving Violations

Imagine this scenario: you get a traffic ticket for a failure to correctly use a traffic signal.  You might have failed to signal within the required distance, you might not have.  You could dispute the ticket, but you decide that it’s not worth it to take the time off from work, go to trial, and fight the ticket.  So, you decide to just send the payment in to the clerk of court.  A week or so later, you get a letter in the mail from the Iowa Department of Transportation saying that the DOT is going to take your driver’s […]

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Commercial Vehicle Tickets Dismissed

Polk County, Iowa- Prosecutors filed several commercial vehicle violations against GRL Law’s client totaling several thousand dollars in potential fines.  After attorney Grant Gangestad filed a motion to dismiss based upon defects in the prosecution, several of the tickets were dismissed with costs assessed to the state.  The client was able to save several thousand dollars in fines and avoided the loss of his employment.

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