01-10-2020, 11:18 PM
I thought I would add my 2 cents since I despise Mantua and their outright dishonest practices. I have to agree with Catchinon's comments. Anytime you are charged with anything (even a ticket) your first step is to appear in court and enter a plea. Pleading guilty ends the process and you then pay the consequences in cash or jail. If you plead innocent then you have to return and try your case. You have little hope of winning in Mantua because the police and judge are both residents, and though the judge isn't supposed to lie, the police are legally allowed to do so outside of court. So rule number 1 is never believe anything a police officer is saying. I called the Davis County courthouse out of curiosity and asked if you could ask for a change of venue and have the case tried in Brigham City or elsewhere but it has to be tried in the jurisdiction where the ticket was issued. So you are at the mercy of the Mantua Kangaroo Court. I'm sure there are hundreds of stories about the local constable so I won't add mine, but I will say that my 1 brush with the law there was for parking on the sand next to the ramp (1 tire about 4 inches onto it) and being yelled obscenities at for 20 minutes while my 5 and 7 year old sons sat there listening. Great lesson about respecting authority and supporting the police (not). With all that being said I have to say that some lunatic driving a black Chevy 2500 with one of those plastic bed covers was parked so far out in the road that I couldn't get past him in a Highlander. But that's beside the point. Good luck with KSL. Maybe we can get the legislature to reconsider their bill from last year.
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