Now you wouldn’t necessarily know this because you aren’t
On October 06, 2009 in Recreation
Now, you wouldn’t necessarily know this because you aren’t a Seattle traffic attorney but traffic infractions, by their very nature, are not criminal acts. The legislature specifically decriminalized traffic infractions in order to speed up the process and eliminate the requirement for legal representation. And this is clearly a traffic infraction that has been turned into a criminal act. So, the driver’s traffic attorney moved to dismiss the charges on the basis that the statute was illegal. To no one’s surprise, the Seattle municipal judge who heard the case upheld the statute and found the driver guilty.