[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by speeder

I can't believe that they can penalise you that much just for contesting it, (or more accurately intimidate/dissuade the public from contesting ticket). Seems like that would be unconstitutional.

When did constitutionality ever come into play with respect to traffic law?

In CA, traffic laws are subject to a completely separate standard of judicial process - not criminal (since there's no right to a jury trial), and not civil. There is no real due process, no presumption of "innocent until proven guilty" and no appeal process. I'm not making this up. You can read more about it here:

http://www.ticketassassin.com/kangaroo.html

There's more information available using that as a starting point for some google searches.

This is PURELY about money. That's all.