ticket says one price clerk says another....

[Guest]

I got my first speeding ticket the other day, I have an excuse for it but I wont say. Anyways I went over the speed limit, the cop seemed to understood my situation and she dropped the price of the ticket for me, she said it, and she wrote it on my ticket, it was gonna be a $268 speeding ticket but she dropped it to $118 which im very grateful for but when I took my ticket to the ticket clerk, she said I had to pay $268.... so im lost, I don't know if I should just pay that, or figure out why im not being able to pay $118...

P.S. The clerk told me the cop must have wrote the ticket wrong.... now I would understand if she was a few dollars off, but 140 ??

I would just like peoples opinion on this situation because I seem to not be able to find a situation like this online

Tampa, Fl Hillsborough county

 

[army judge]

I got my first speeding ticket the other day, I have an excuse for it but I wont say. Anyways I went over the speed limit, the cop seemed to understood my situation and she dropped the price of the ticket for me, she said it, and she wrote it on my ticket, it was gonna be a $268 speeding ticket but she dropped it to $118 which im very grateful for but when I took my ticket to the ticket clerk, she said I had to pay $268.... so im lost, I don't know if I should just pay that, or figure out why im not being able to pay $118...

P.S. The clerk told me the cop must have wrote the ticket wrong.... now I would understand if she was a few dollars off, but 140 ??

I would just like peoples opinion on this situation because I seem to not be able to find a situation like this online

Tampa, Fl Hillsborough county

Our opinions mean nothing.
The court clerk has spoken.
You can fight it by demanding a trial.
You can take traffic school, pay about $25, and the whole thing gets wiped away.

 

[kjsteele927]

Typically the fine for speeding is set at increasing increments based on the speed by which you were exceeding the posted limit. So, for example, speeding less than 10 mph over the limit would cost 118, more than 10 mph over the limit would be 268. Cops can (and sometimes do) adjust the alleged speed they write on a ticket accordingly. But if the cop wrote that you were doing 66 mph in a 55 zone, that is more than 10 over, so the clerk will collect the higher amount. You can go to court and argue it, and the judge can impose whichever he/she determines based on proven facts. The court clerk has no authority to change anything. Or you can go to traffic school as army judge suggested.