A decent County Attorney will agree to dismiss with court costs to you (not a lot of money). Some CA's are assholes. Those were all handled by me as magistrate when I was doing that work. I worked with a few different CA's. I pretty much strongarmed them within allowance to make them settle with Defendants that cleared up their shit. People need to get work. If you start penalizing them by asking to have their licenses dinged, it just creates a cycle.
That being said, I was a hardass on the defendants that got picked up for Driving Under Suspension and then were stupid enough to drive to the courthouse, park outside my window, and then lied to me about how they got to court.
Honesty should be rewarded. "hey, I screwed up, I forgot, I am having to take time off of work to be here.
Do you live in Iowa? BC if so, they drastically increased the fines since I left the bench. That is way high. I can't imagine that is right
