Speeding Ticket - Florida
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by ironporer
I don't mind speeding a bit, 75 or 80 in a 65 mph zone on the Interstate...but you don't thing that damn near DOUBLE the limit in a residential or buisiness area is maybe a bit dangerous...or maybe you just don't give a shlt about the rest of us out there?
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Ray
Thats a new one on me ....got a statute for that .........
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
LOL are they sure they've got that the right way round? Misdemeanour without a firearm in Florida is a felony
Especially with all the NJ snowbird here right now
Just need a permit to have it on your person ..
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by airborne83x
Hey there all
I am so scared!! I got pulled over 1 1/2 weeks ago and cop caught me speeding at 66 on 35. Meaning 31 miles over the speeding limit so he gave me a ticket and said that i must attend court.
I'm soooo scared. What's going to happen now? Am i going to JAIL????
I am so scared!! I got pulled over 1 1/2 weeks ago and cop caught me speeding at 66 on 35. Meaning 31 miles over the speeding limit so he gave me a ticket and said that i must attend court.
I'm soooo scared. What's going to happen now? Am i going to JAIL????
You got very lucky.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Ray
Thats a new one on me ....got a statute for that .........
A cop can commute almost any moving traffic violation to a misdemeanour if they want to. Driving with excess speed can be commuted to reckless without much difficulty (which is a misdemeanour).
And if theres any damage (to anything, even clipping a curb) then its even easier to do so.
Im sure you're aware of the law regards commiting any misdemeanour in possession of a firearm?
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
An illegally held firearm of course.
Even someone who is entitled to posess a firearm and who commits a misdemeanour while in posession runs the risk of being charged with a felony.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Old William
Im sure you're aware of the law regards commiting any misdemeanour in possession of a firearm?
Your not referring to Florida statute 775.087.. I presume
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Old William
No. If you mean someone who is federally banned from posessing a firearm (convicted felon etc) then the mere act of possession of the firearm is a felony.
Even someone who is entitled to posess a firearm and who commits a misdemeanour while in posession runs the risk of being charged with a felony.
Even someone who is entitled to posess a firearm and who commits a misdemeanour while in posession runs the risk of being charged with a felony.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Rete
Is this an act or what? In your other thread on the marriage-based visa forum you blew off this ticket as nothing but a minor inconvenience. Why the change of mindset?
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Ray
No you better tell me .....
Your not referring to Florida statute 775.087.. I presume
Your not referring to Florida statute 775.087.. I presume
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
So if I got caught speeding on the way to the range, I could get charged with a felony?
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Old William
In theory yes. In practice probably not unless you really really piss off the cop. But the upshot is that when you are in posession of a firearm you should modify your behaviour according to the added responsibility that goes with it.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
That's like saying if I punch someone in the face on my doorstep I can be charged with a felony if I have a gun upstairs in a drawer.
However with it safely tucked into a holster or otherwise about or near your person it is.
Its all theory anyway...and highly unlikely to happen unless you piss off the cop or do something really stupid.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by Old William
No. The firearm is not in your immediately accessable posession.
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Re: Speeding Ticket - Florida
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
Nor is it if it's in the trunk of my car on the way to the range... or locked in the glove box...