My lady friend will be eligible to submit her N-400 in about
5 months.
She has never had any trouble with the law... not even a
parking ticket during the entire time.
However, last week, she received a ticket for illegal window
tint on her new car. The tint shop had used a 50% tint
on the front door. The state law is 43% net, so she should
have no problem. Unfortunately, the new car that she got
had factory heat resisting door glass that has a VLT rate
of 70%. 50% times 70% turns out to be 35%. The state
trooper who issued the ticket had a little gadget that can
measure the VLT rate. It came back as 38%, so he issued
a ticket. Under the charge he wrote "illegal front door tint,
38% field test..."
My lady friend thought it was not a big deal, probably a
fine and the removal of the tine should take care of it.
Well... not so... it turns out that the window tint violation
is not considered a traffic violation in her home state. It's
actually a Class-C misdeamanor. It cannot be prepaid
by mailing in a check. She is required to appear in the
local county court.
What should she do now? Should she hire a lawyer(either
traffic, criminal, or immigration) to help her fight this case?
For what it's worth, she already had the tint shop guys
take off the window tint this morning...
Thanks for any suggestions.... Please reply as early as
humanly possible, because the ticket has a court date of
August 29 written on it....
5 months.
She has never had any trouble with the law... not even a
parking ticket during the entire time.
However, last week, she received a ticket for illegal window
tint on her new car. The tint shop had used a 50% tint
on the front door. The state law is 43% net, so she should
have no problem. Unfortunately, the new car that she got
had factory heat resisting door glass that has a VLT rate
of 70%. 50% times 70% turns out to be 35%. The state
trooper who issued the ticket had a little gadget that can
measure the VLT rate. It came back as 38%, so he issued
a ticket. Under the charge he wrote "illegal front door tint,
38% field test..."
My lady friend thought it was not a big deal, probably a
fine and the removal of the tine should take care of it.
Well... not so... it turns out that the window tint violation
is not considered a traffic violation in her home state. It's
actually a Class-C misdeamanor. It cannot be prepaid
by mailing in a check. She is required to appear in the
local county court.
What should she do now? Should she hire a lawyer(either
traffic, criminal, or immigration) to help her fight this case?
For what it's worth, she already had the tint shop guys
take off the window tint this morning...
Thanks for any suggestions.... Please reply as early as
humanly possible, because the ticket has a court date of
August 29 written on it....