If you have an otherwise clean driving record, in Texas you can ask the court for "Deferred Disposition", which, if granted, keeps the citation and points off your license, assuming you meet the disposition requirements...03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:55 am"Should Not" is the key words. Police may still write you a ticket but you can take it to court and hope the judge believes you when you tell him you were past the white line. A few years back my SIL got a ticket for turning left on red. The front end of his vehicle was already in the intersection when the light turned red and he went on. He just paid it instead of fighting it. I told him he should fight it but he made a good point when he told me the judge would believe the cop over him.
Random cite from City of Midland website...
https://www.co.midland.tx.us/490/Criminal-Traffic-Cases
Deferred Adjudication/Disposition is another way to dismiss a traffic ticket in Texas. Normally a person pays a court fee and is placed on a 60 to 90 day probation period. As long as they do not get any other traffic tickets within that probation time frame the past citation will be dismissed.
As of September 1, 2003 you are not eligible for Deferred Disposition if you possess a Class A or B driver’s license, even if you are in a personal vehicle.