Protecting Your Driver's License in New York State
To keep a minor traffic infraction from becoming a major inconvenience - in the form of increased insurance rates - or even a crime, as a result of license suspensions, contact a skilled attorney at the law firm of Jonathan R. Sennett, P.C. in Kingston. Our office helps drivers throughout the Hudson Valley, including those in Ulster County, Orange County, Dutchess County and from out of state resolve moving violations on terms that can keep your license intact. We are ready, willing and able to represent drivers before the following court, as well as other locations throughout the Hudson Valley: towns and cities: Town of Marborough, Town of Plattekill, Town of New Paltz, Town of Rosendale, Town of Lloyd, Town of Esopus, Town of Kingston, City of Kingston, Town of Ulster, Town of Saugerties, Town of Hurley, Town of Woodstock, Town of Marbletown, Town of Wawarsing, Town of Gardiner, Town of Rochester, Town of Shandaken, Town of Olive, Town of Shawangunk, Town of Newburgh, City of Newburgh, Town of Poughkeepsie, City of Poughkeepsie, Town of Rhinebeck, Village of Rhinebeck, Town of Hyde Park.
Speeding tickets (under section 1180 of the New York State Vehicle & Traffic Law) and other traffic violations are big enough problems by themselves, as the surcharges and court fees keep increasing. Many traffic tickets (known as moving violations), also represent a given number of points against your driver's license, and in New York, 11 points in an 18-month period can result in suspension. You can also get your license suspended for failure to appear and answer to any Vehicle & Traffic Law offense, regardless of whether it is a moving violation.
Call our office at 866-585-1091 when you get a ticket or suspension notice
Most traffic tickets in New York State are handled in the local Justice Courts. With years of experience practicing in the different towns and villages of the Hudson Valley, Jonathan Sennett knows how to protect your interests on traffic violations. His ability to present your strongest defense before a local justice can help you avoid the need for an administrative hearing before the state DMV.
Even if you were stopped by state police on the New York Thruway, he can usually find a way to help, including possibly pleading your case to a violation with fewer or no points, reopen old tickets for which you did not appear, or try your case to the justice when defects in the citation or the evidence favor your position.
Our methods to defeat serious moving violations and overturn driver's license suspensions help local drivers, student drivers, commercial drivers, and out-of-state drivers alike. You can even take advantage of a provision of New York criminal procedure that allows you to appear through your lawyer in court — in other words, you likely will not have to take a day off from work or even return to the Hudson Valley to resolve the problem.
Don't let a failure to appear or your next speeding ticket expose you to the inconvenience and expense of a driver's license suspension. Contact Jonathan Sennett, P.C. in Kingston, and learn about your options for resolving old traffic violations and suspended license problems. To talk with attorney Sennett, you can contact us online. You may also call us locally at 845-943-2261 or toll-free at 866-585-1091.
