thetexan wrote: ....
I keep hearing this as if it's nothing. This isn't some traffic ticket that you can just poo poo. It effects your ability to legally meet several thresholds of legal defense while you are committing the offense.
I'm as irked as the next guy by the seemingly non necessity for a business to properly post and I understand fully the rights I have to ignore non-compliant signs. But I want to avoid a verbal notice like the plague, because of the three forms of notice that one is permanent. And then that would really become a hassel.
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tex
Maybe it affects your "presumption" of justification for use of force/deadly force under 9.31/9.32, but like speeding, you have the right to a jury trial of the facts of the offense. If you need that presumption so badly at an assault/murder trial, I bet you're going to have a much easier time beating the class C to get the presumption, than if it were a more serious included offense.
All class C's including speeding and not wearing a seat belt are criminal offenses and you have the Constitutional right to a jury trial. The indication of the seriousness of the offense in the case of a class C, is the amount of the fine, since there aren't any with jail. $200 is less than some other class C's.
Many states have addressed this by decriminalizing traffic offenses and making them Civil Infractions...Then they use it to arbitrarily convict you without the standard required of a jury trial...but I digress...Until Texas reduces the fines C offenses below $200, I will continue to "poo poo" them to the same extent that I do speeding.
That stated, I DO NOT advocate speeding, or carrying past a valid sign, nor watering your lawn on the wrong day.
