Calif traffic speedy trial?

paulpaul
in Politics & Government

I received a ticket in March 2010 which was not filed in LA Superior Court on my appearance date on the citation in May 2010.

I checked the court website several times or a few months with the same results, and lost sight of the issue.

The issuing agency sent a notice of correction of appearance date in Aug 2010 to the court and to an address I had moved away from after the ticket was issued, and I didn't find out about this until I checked several months after the new court date.

Since I did not appear I beleive I was convicted in abstentia and fine set was forwarded to GC Services for collections. ($875 from what would have been a $108 fine) The court also sent notice to DMV and my license was suspended.

I went to court to get an arraignment date, and a clerk cleared the FTA enabling me to pay a fee to get my license back.

I suspect that I will likely have to answer for an FTA 40508a charge in addition to the original reason.

If I represent myself at arraignment, do I have a good chance at dismissal of the FTA if I present a paper stamped by the clerk stating I appeared as promised.

Also I have read that I can have the whole thing dismissed based on 'Rost v Municipal Court' because my arraignment was not done is a timely manner from the time a complaint was made (the citation), with four months being cited as too long a delay without cause, with the delay being seven months in my situation.

Thanks for any imput/

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