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Article: Traffic Court date leaves drivers feeling jilted
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 24, 1990
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Craig Brown was ready Friday for his day in court on a traffic
ticket he said he didn't deserve.
What he got instead, however, was a day of confusion and a
frustrating two-hour wait to learn that he didn't even have a court
date.
"I took a vacation day for this," said the 41-year-old resident
of Munster, Ind., who was ticketed for going the wrong way on a
one-way street. "Now I have to take another one."
Brown was one of several hundred people who waited in line five
abreast at Traffic Court because they thought their tickets listed
Friday as their court date.
But under a new system, that date was simply the deadline for
choosing whether they wanted to plead guilty, request a ...