- updated: Jun. 29, 2023
If your company failed to appear on a Nassau County 1st District Court date, Â the company may have been fined thousands of dollars for having been found "guilty in absentia" of trucking violations. Did your company receive a notice like this?
Or, did your company receive a demand from a collections agency to pay the fines? Â There is an alternative to paying the fines. The remedy is a written application to vacate the default convictions called a "motion". Â To be successful, the application must set forth a reasonable excuse for having failed to appear and a defense to the charges. For example, the driver failed to turn in the tickets to the company and the violations were corrected. Â Â I have had over a hundred thousand of dollars in default convictions for companies vacated in the Nassau County 1st District Court. (and NYC Criminal Courts too). Â Once the guilty pleas are vacated, the case is restored to the calendar and I can present evidence in your defense to resolve the case.. Â Â Â