First 'Major' ticket

I have a "legal Service" for a rather small monthly fee and it has really helped with my Wife's habit of getting caught speeding. In Michigan the ticket has three boxes to check, 1- not guilty (go to court & lose, get points and a fine), 2 - guilty (get points and a fine) 3- guilty but with a reason (get points and a fine). What a lawer does for me is he gets to go in the back door and talk to the prosecutor( I would need to wait unitl we are in front of a judge to do this), then he makes the best deal he can for me. It's usually no points but I still need to pay, which is tolerable - this saves on insurance in the short and long term.

So I always recomend people look into these legal services. Always go into court with a lawyer, it's not cheap but you need to play the game. It's just another system to take money, so play the game, pay the lawyers (the judge is a lawyer) and try to keep your record as clean as possible so the insurance companies don't find out.