Got a call from a Detroiter today who has, yes you guessed it, outstanding tickets and warrants in my jurisdiction.
First she figures since marijuana is now legal, her open warrant for failing to appear for sentencing for possession of a decent amount of the electric lettuce in 2009 should just go away.
No, it really doesn't work like that.
Next, of course, she has an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on driving without a license, no proof of insurance, and no proof of registration charges - the Detroit Driver Trifecta.
Her explanation for it is something else indeed, and I quote:
"I didn't do anything wrong - the lady who loaned me the car, she knew I didn't have a license, and she shouldn't have had expired plates on the car that caused me to get pulled over, it's not my fault."
So much was wrong with that emotionally declarative sentence that I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or ask her if she's still smoking the good stuff when I heard it.
She honestly and vehemently thinks she did nothing wrong by driving without a license or insurance, and it's all her friend's fault for giving her a car with an expired plate.
She was then surprised that she needed to pay a retainer to a lawyer up front to fix this problem and the only reason she wants to fix it is the outstanding warrants are giving her issues with her benefits and preventing her from getting even more government assistance.
So no, she won't be retaining me 'cause she don't want to pay up front. This of course means she wouldn't be paying when it's done either, I do know how this works by now and sorry, but this just doesn't qualify for a pro bono case.
There really is no need to wonder why auto insurance is so high in Detroit.
5 comments:
Beyond stupid.....
Person of Color, by the attitude.
Of course, I could be wrong.
drjim: Yes, yes it is.
B: You're not wrong.
Thats...funny. Sad, but funny...
I used to tell people with open warrants that they could get them cleared up by going to the police department in the jurisdiction that the warrant was from and requesting the form to close the warrant out provided it was at least a year old. I told them to bring ID because they'd have to prove who they were. I know of at least one guy who actually fell for it.
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