...A few weeks ago I was detained for speeding. As per standard proceedure, the officer asked for my liscense, registration and proof of insurance. I obliged and was surprised to find that my insurance card was expired though my coverage was current. My registration was suspended by the MVD of Arizona (long story). The topper was that I had a warrant for my arrest from a parking ticket I neglected to satisfy. Fortunately, the UHP officer took pity and didn't impound my truck and throw me in the big house. He let me go with three violations and a sore ego.
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As is typical I procrastinated the reconciliation of my infractions until I gained another warrant for my arrest....hey man, I'm busy.When I finally took time out to settle things, my total fines were over $500.00. D'oh! So I called the courthouse and spoke with a civil servant who gave me hope that if I could prove my case, I would only have to pay the original $82.00. I gathered my documents and faxed them with this letter:
Your Honor,
I am Kevin xxxxx, case # 075xxxxxx. I wish to address the charge relative to driving with a suspended registration. In deference to your schedule, I'll as be brief as possible.
As the following document demonstrates, I followed the procedures for registration required by law to the best of my ability within reason. Though I had my insurance documents with me when I registered my truck, the representative at the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division declined to even look at them and validated my vehicle anyway. A few weeks later, I received a letter asking for my insurance documents. I followed the steps detailed in the letter and sent them in. A few weeks later again, I received a letter stating that my response was inadequate and that my registration was in jeopardy. I determined that I needed to physically appear at the Motor Vehicle Division to resolve the matter. Though I waited in line for over an hour, my effort was rejected and I was counciled to send the required documents by mail. I did exactly as was described. After some time passed, and believing we had come to a conclusion, I received another letter stating that my registration was suspended for lack of proof of insurance. I believed that I had done my due diligence. I maintained insurance coverage and had paid the fees for registration. I could not see the point in further action with an impossibly robotic bureaucracy more fascinated with the convoluted mechanics of internal process than serving the purpose of it's charge. My family and I were just a couple of months away from graduating from P.A. school and would be relocating back in Utah anyway.
Given my brief experience with the great and turbulent State of Arizona, I look forward to renewed residency in Utah; I'd just rather not do it from the doubtlessly relaxing, but certainly restrictive, Butch Cassidy suite. Though I have trespassed the law I am not by nature a criminal, nor am I characteristically negligent (opinions vary). I hope that Your Honor will see a way to be merciful to me relative to the lack of insurance charge and the suspended registration charge.
I appreciate your time and apologize for my absence. Given my meteoric approach toward late middle-age I am more presentable in prose than in person.
Respectfully, Blahblahblah
It worked and I only had to pay the speeding ticket.
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Originally Posted by Seanz0rz
Anyway, congratulations Fuster!
I can't wait for this story. 
. It was in a 55 MPH though and the trooper wrote me for reckless driving. I went to visit the clerk (it was a little bitty town) and she told me to go ahead and go to driving school and write a letter to the judge (since I would not be able to attend court since I would be in class about 3 hours away that day). I had my dad write a letter too. It worked as he dismissed the charges and I have made it to 24 with a clean driving record 
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