New kind of free advice gives Jefferson students boost up

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:02:52 +0000

New kind of free advice gives Jefferson students boost up
Of the ninth-graders who entered San Antonio’s Thomas Jefferson High School in 2005, only half ended up graduating in 2009. And even those who finished in the top 20 percent of their class academically only moved on — if they went anywhere — to the local community college, rarely applying to more challenging schools. “It just didn’t make sense to me,” says interim principal Joanne Cockrell, a …

Legal advice for a traffic ticket! please help me! I know this is long, but I desperately need help!!?

Sat, 15 May 2010 17:36:55 +0000

In December of 2008 I received a ticket for running a stop sign near the University of Southern California, where I attend school. I stopped at the sign and was thus extremely confused as to why the cop wrote me a ticket. When I was driving away I realized what had happened- the car in the turning lane next to me, which stopped at the same time I did, pulled out in front of me instead of turning like he was supposed to- at the time I was just annoyed and honked, but then i realized it had made it seem like I ran the stop sign. Additionally, I don’t own a car and was actually just moving my friend’s car down the block, and didn’t have my license on me- the cop told me I could go to court instead of paying and show them my valid license and that charge would be dropped- so, I decided I wanted to contest the ticket in court as I had not actually run the stop-sign, and didn’t want the additional fine for not having my license. Unfortunately, I lost the ticket, and went home to florida for winter break a couple days later. My court date turned out to be while I was gone, and I eventually received a failure to appear/warrant for arrest, etc. I was able to reschedule another court date, which I attended yesterday. (arraignment hearing actually) Because I now had the failure to appear, I could not plead “not guilty” to running the stop sign- I had to plead one answer for the charge of failure to appear, running the stop-sign, and not having a valid license, so I had to please guilty. However I showed the judge my Florida license expecting to get that charge dropped, and he said because I listed a California address (my school address) I needed to have a valid CA license and my Florida was not acceptable (despite the fact that I do not own a car and do not have CA registration or anything like that) So, I received a 100$ fine for running the stop-sign, a 100$ fine for my license, and a 35$ fine for Failure to appear. I guess because the failure to appear is initially misdemeanor (which they drop to an infraction in court?) or whatever, they increase your fine by 236% when you get to the cashier (they explained it all before but i can’t remember exactly why they do this)- thus, i was ordered to pay 900 and something dollars. Being a college student I have nowhere near this kind of money and asked for comm service, but then found out I now have 117 hours to do in about 2 months. This is simply not a possibility for me- i am currently in summer school, have a part time job, and will begin my fall classes in a couple weeks. Does anyone know if there is ANYTHING I can possibly do at this point to either get the fine reduced to a reasonable amount that I could afford to pay, or an amount of hours that I might be able to do? Am I able to write an appeal, or is it too late? Any advice would help me, I am a communications and film major and am not familiar with the legal system at all! Anything would help! thank you!

Registrar’s Advice for Registration

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:52:47 +0000

NEW WILMINGTON, Lawrence County– Westminster’s Registrar June Pierce says students have a misunderstanding when it comes to some aspects of class registration. She talks with wcn’s Adam Plyler and offers some advice for the student population as we head into the next registration process.

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New kind of free advice gives Jefferson students boost up

Legal advice for a traffic ticket! please help me! I know this is long, but I desperately need help!!?

Registrar’s Advice for Registration