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Re:A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop by makomk on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @04:43PM (#10125901)
She was also fighting several completely and utterly bogus citations from the traffic stop for those 6 years, unless I'm misreading this.
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Re:A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop by will_brown on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @05:13PM (#10126063)
Yes she did fight the 4 tickets in traffic/mayor's court, but she lost. That did not take 6 years.

After losing she filed a civil lawsuit against the city and the officer, that is what took 6 years (including appeals) and that is where her monetary judgment came from. That was my point, it is confusing to non-lawyers, but generally they should be aware that defendant's do not win monetary judgments in traffic/criminal cases.

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