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I was stoped in a Police checkpoint in Van Nuys, Ca. and my driver's license was expired, unfortunately I have no way to renew it, so I just checked in the Van Nuys Court and they told me the charge is currently a misdemeanor so I want to try to do something to reduce the charge to just an infraction because a misdemeanor will affect me considerably in my inmigration procedures,
The only previous ticket I have had in the past was a speding ticket in 2006 in Riverside County and in that moment I did not have my wallet and license with me but the CHP officer checked my license number in his computer (it was ok) and he wrote the charge code: 12951(A)vc D.L. NIP, and the court only charged $ 10 when I showed my D.L. to the judge, I also paid the speeding charge and I did traffic school and all the procedures on time and I received the final OK docs. (and I double checked everything)
So do you guys think that previous ticket in 2006 will affect me if I want to try to ask the reduction of this current expired license ticket misdemeanor to an infraction ?, this is the first time I receive a code: 12500(a)vc
but besides I can not renew my D.L. and have no job and no savings to afford a lawyer to help me in court (the cheaper I could find is $750), So I don't know if there could be any chance to be helped in court by their FORMER Van Nuys court "PUBLIC DEFENDER" because this is a misdemeanor charge, but I tried to ask this to their Public Defender department and their clerk told me that the right day of the court trial I have to ask to the court if they can asign a Public defender to me because I can not afford and external one, and the court will decide and check in that moment if they can/want assign me one or can not, so I don't know what is the real chance if they want to assign me one, and if they do I don't know if he/she can actually do something to help me to reduce the charge to infraction
Any advice is always very welcome.
I was stoped in a Police checkpoint in Van Nuys, Ca. and my driver's license was expired, unfortunately I have no way to renew it, so I just checked in the Van Nuys Court and they told me the charge is currently a misdemeanor so I want to try to do something to reduce the charge to just an infraction because a misdemeanor will affect me considerably in my inmigration procedures,
The only previous ticket I have had in the past was a speding ticket in 2006 in Riverside County and in that moment I did not have my wallet and license with me but the CHP officer checked my license number in his computer (it was ok) and he wrote the charge code: 12951(A)vc D.L. NIP, and the court only charged $ 10 when I showed my D.L. to the judge, I also paid the speeding charge and I did traffic school and all the procedures on time and I received the final OK docs. (and I double checked everything)
So do you guys think that previous ticket in 2006 will affect me if I want to try to ask the reduction of this current expired license ticket misdemeanor to an infraction ?, this is the first time I receive a code: 12500(a)vc
but besides I can not renew my D.L. and have no job and no savings to afford a lawyer to help me in court (the cheaper I could find is $750), So I don't know if there could be any chance to be helped in court by their FORMER Van Nuys court "PUBLIC DEFENDER" because this is a misdemeanor charge, but I tried to ask this to their Public Defender department and their clerk told me that the right day of the court trial I have to ask to the court if they can asign a Public defender to me because I can not afford and external one, and the court will decide and check in that moment if they can/want assign me one or can not, so I don't know what is the real chance if they want to assign me one, and if they do I don't know if he/she can actually do something to help me to reduce the charge to infraction
Any advice is always very welcome.