by Hope
I feel I’ve mentioned this half a dozen instances over the previous few years.
“We plan and God laughs.”
Whereas I assumed I had my entire cash plan discovered…after which I went to jail.
Okay, earlier than your thoughts goes everywhere. It was only for one evening. And the results of a “clerical” error. But it surely price me a boatload of cash. And can price extra within the coming months.
As a result of even thought it was NOT MY FAULT, I’ve to now pay a felony lawyer to verify the courtroom is aware of that and the tickets I used to be given carried out stick.
The brief model
On a Friday evening, I went out to select up Gymnast from work. And was pulled over for operating a cease signal, or slightly a rolling cease. No matter. I don’t assume I did that both. However okay.
When the state patrol ran my license, it got here again as suspended. And evidently, within the state of Georgia, that’s a bondable offense, requiring him to take me to jail.
Gymnast had gotten somebody to offer him a experience to the place I used to be pulled over. And I instructed the policeman, very properly, that he was a licensed and insured driver and that I might go very first thing on Monday and clear something up. Nope.
He assured me, it will be fast…a few hours at most.
He handcuffed me and took me to the county jail.
The small print
I had acquired a rushing ticket within the fall of 2019 (incorrect when first printed as 2018). Paid it by verify in February, 2020 (incorrect when first printed as 2019) simply as every thing started shutting down as a result of COVID. And evidently, whomever processed my verify, “mis-applied it” so it confirmed as my ticket wasn’t paid and so they suspended my license in January, 2021.
As quickly as I returned from jail, I used to be in a position to verify the verify was cashed. I known as the county in query, she cleared it up shortly and mentioned it will take a day or two for it to be clear within the system. The next day, I used to be in a position to go get my license again – after paying a $100 reinstatement charge.
Nonetheless, I now have a operating a cease signal ticket. Which may simply be paid.
However I even have a driving on a suspended license. If convicted, I’ll lose my license for at least 6 months, I’m instructed.
Courtroom in March. A lawyer will price $1,500. However after my dealings with the police and courtroom system right here in Georgia, I cannot go this alone.
Jail was traumatizing
I cannot go into the main points of an evening in jail. But it surely was horrible and scary and so a lot of my fundamental human rights, no to say medical rights have been violated.
They took my glasses and listening to aids quickly as I received there (together with every thing else I used to be sporting). I couldn’t see or hear something besides once they actually screamed at me.
I used to be put in a cell with no rest room for hours. Ultimately needing a change of garments (jail uniform) after they refused to let me get to a rest room over the course of hours ready.
I used to be not in a position to take my prescribed medicine (missed two doses)…regardless of my sons each being there providing to deliver it, have a health care provider name, every thing.
The couple of hours…reserving and bonding out, ended up being a 12 hour nightmare. They usually ultimately let me go together with no bond as an “apology”.
I’m actually not effectively versed on the conventional operations of a jail. However I can say that if that’s how they function…I worry for our nation in a giant means.
0/10 don’t suggest the entire jail expertise!
The associated fee
That is going to finish up costing me upwards of $2,000 to battle the charges I needed to pay for getting my license again, licensed copies of the cashed verify, and so on. And evidently, the county who brought about all this can’t be held accountable.
It is extremely, very scary {that a} rushing ticket from three years in the past can find yourself like this. With no file in any respect, I used to be handled like I had dedicated the worst crime ever.And it’s much more scary that anybody going to jail is handled like that. Significantly, until you’re violent or performing up, nobody must be handled like I used to be in jail.
So I’ve been recovering mentally. I positively have a stress response to any siting of a police officer. The one who arrested me was good sufficient, however he lied. And the one’s within the jail have been simply horrible, horrible folks. Up till this incident, I used to be a staunch supporter of the police. After this, I query every thing.
Hope is a digital advertising and marketing supervisor and foster/adoptive single mother to 5 children. She has run her personal consulting firm for over 15 years and took a leap of religion returning to the company world in 2021 to a job and crew she loves! Hope started sharing her journey with the BAD group within the Spring of 2015 and looks like she has lastly mastered the steadiness between household first and sensible monetary selections.