i spoke to an undercover state trooper today. he said "my friend" will most likely get about 350 fine and POSSIBLY a 30 to 90 day suspension. he even went into his car and dug out some booklets that he agve to me to look thru, with all th elaws and violations and all. he was at the gas station sillin up so i went and talked to him lol
I am not sure how can that be. In my case it was totally different. Judge use to call like 10 people ahead and then he will call each one in front by turn. Judge read out the charges and the person has to just reply guilty, not or no-contest. For guilty/no-contest judge will tell you fine and ask weather you want to pay in installments or together (same day). For not-guilty judge told few people that they will be notified the date of trial etc. Thats it - my overall conversation with judge was not more than 1 min - and I didn't had to say more than few words. It was superfast I pleaded No Contest - I had never heard of that phrase before so there was no question of homework What you described sounds so much different though
In my case, Judge first called the officer who handed least amount of tickets. Then they called all those to whom those tickets were handed. So my cop was #4 - and my name was called. For not-guilty, Judge made those people sit till all the guilty were done with, and then Judge set a new date. Those who chose No Contest - no new dates, they were listened to but few more minutes later.
Pleading no contest is the same as pleading guilty. You are still admiting guilt. However, if pleading no contest the case cannot be held against you in a later trial if something else happens. No contest isn't really too useful for moving violations. Much better for accidents IMO