An Unnecessary Comment?

Forget all about the "cross dresser" comment, but take it to court anyway. I was speaking with a man that used to a director in my company about his pretty little Porche. Somewhere along the lines the topic of traffic tickets came up and he told me that he had received about 6 tickets in it but had gotten out of each and every one simply by showing up in court. As others here have said, officers rarely actually show up to a court hearing for traffic tickets and the way I understand it, if he doesn't show up, the verdict is yours.
This is all second hand and not personal experience, but the guy I was talking to wasn't the type to make it up.
So - take it to court, because it wont make things any worse, and will quite possibly get you out of it entirely.
I'd be awful surprised if a judge wouldn't cut someone some slack who has a perfect record like yours, and bothered to take it to trial.

I don't know how it works in Tx. but here in NJ you can speak to the prosecutor before court and either work out a plea or possibly have the ticket dismissed. The prosecutor will then decline to prosecute and the Judge will dismiss the case.

I think many of the posters have made important points. However, in response to Miss Cassie's defense of the officer in question, I feel impelled to make this point. Police are a Necessary Evil in society. On most occasions they are on the Necessary side of the equation, but sometimes they are on the Evil side of the equation. If all our criminal laws were just and fair, and if everyone obeyed all laws regarding legal behavior, there would be no need for any policemen or criminal court judges. Since, unfortunately, there are large numbers of individuals in society who choose not to obey and conform to such rules, a police presence is necessary to protect the law-obeyers from the law-breakers.

On the other hand, the failure to obey and conform to rules is also many times a failure of the individual police officer. Psychological profiling has shown that people who want to be police officers or prison guards look at life from a different, and much more judgmental and intolerant way than the ordinary person. The word 'bully' comes to mind. Whether the officer who gave you the ticket was motivated by anything other than a legitimate desire to enforce the traffic rules in force and effect at the time and place where and when you were cited is a matter for a judge to decide.

Unfortunately, this is another point where the system breaks down. Most judges do not give equal consideration to every case which comes before them, and routine traffic cases are probably somewhere at the bottom of their Attention Span list. They almost always side with the police officer who they presume has no personal stake in the outcome. When I was a young lawyer I often would go to small town courts in Ohio, and it was not uncommon to see a Judge drinking coffee and joking with the police officers and prosecutors before going into court to judge cases in which the police officers would be witnesses, and the prosecutors would be advocates.

I have no opinion on the merits of your suspicion that you were discriminated against because you were crossdressed at the time. My gut reaction, however, is that unless you can demonstrate that the officer's bias motivated the initial stop you have a difficult row to hoe.

I recieve a ticket a few months back by a park ranger while in san antonio and i was treated very well by him, he gave me a break and lower my ticket to a parking ticket from a parking in the grass which would have been higher.I told i was just taking pictures and i showed him my D.L.and my TGid card and then he have a nice day.

I think we have allowed the laws of our land to be over written,and in many instances used against us, who do our best to be law-abideing. But I also noticed that the most important item here in this conversation is the lack of finances to discharge the cost accessed with-out hard ship. That being said it also shows me hiring a lawyer is an expense that can't be met. So taking those items into consideration I'd advise going to court, telling the court" I stopped " and hope for the best.