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Originally Posted by ((sr)) kelly
yeh its not a ticket its just a paper with my court date and what the officer found..
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It is a citation for court appearance to respond to criminal charges. It is a "ticket".
I think you're using "ticket" to mean prepayable offenses. Prepaying means you're admitting guilt and just wants to pay to save everybody's time.
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Originally Posted by ((sr)) kelly
i was just sitting there in the parking lott watching my friend on the go cart and the officer comes in and holds a tazer on everyone and makes us all lay down on the ground... he cussed us out for about 20 minutes and then wrote us all BS tickets because only one kid rode the go cart
it was an open parking lott that attatches to the street... there were no gates at all..
there werent even any gates to get to the go carts haha.. and no one told us to leave
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I'm not licensed to practice criminal law in NC so this is just my general comments. Seek a licensed attorney ASAP and get it resolved.
For trespassing, it doesn't matter if there is no gate, no sign, or no one told you to leave.
If there were a gate, then you would also get breaking and entering on top of trespassing. So be glad there isn't a gate.
If someone told you to leave and you didn't, you would have gotten possibly assault on top of trespassing.
You all may go down for robbery, trespassing, and maybe some sort of conspiracy charge.
Trespassing law is really complicated.
The fact is that you have to respect the property line. Just because the lot was open doesn't mean you can come through. The only people who can do that are police, fire/EMS, mailman/UPS/FedEx, and utility companies. Those people have the right to go into property uninvited. Just about everyone else would be trespassing.
Taking a go cart even though it was left out could be robbery even though you didn't leave with it. You can't just take people's stuff while on private property, even if the property is in plain sight.
Hell, even if you found stuff on public property you still don't have the right to it. You have to turn it in and wait to see if anybody claims it.
These are some serious offences and you need a serious lawyer. Don't mess around because you can get slammed hard. It's not as simple as a bunch of kids having fun.
You don't want criminal convictions on your record and have to explain that for the rest of your life.