Back in 2009, I got a ticket for parking in a handicap parking spot, in a private parking
lot properly tagged with a DV tag......and the vehicle registered in both my husband and my name.  Now....the bicycle cop harrasses the Hell out of me and then tickets me and get this my husband who is 100 percent disabled from ptsd and spinal stenosis was NOT physically in the car at the time of the ticketing but I had let him off at a store in the strip mall and showed him where I would be parked.  This practice of ticketing the disabled and vets had gone on for some time and I even got a video of this happening to an elderly grandmother right after the incident.   Mind you, they fine you what they feel.  15.00 for one. 50 for another and 140 for me.  My husband hobbled and yes I say hobbled to the police station to tell them I had no clue which store he was in but I was transporting him when I got the ticket which under Ga law is illegal.I have the right even if the car and tag was not in both our name
They got mad. They were mad because we bucked their so called authority and they got mad because I wanted a jury trial.   I went to court back waaaaaaaay back a couple of years ago and pleaded Not guilty and requested a jury trial.   I hired an attorney.  My attorney...The Snow came and they cancelled the court date.....they set another date and it was during this time ya'll remember what I was going through....my husband's son had killed himself and we were going through Hell and I cancelled that trial date.  Keep in mind they cancelled two of them.  My attorney raising Hell with them to drop the charge.  They wouldn't.  They also lied about my husband contacting the mayor and chief of police but that was BS....my husband would not know the mayor or Chief of police if he met them face to face.  Who believes I let my husband fight my battles.  Don't happen..EVER !!!!!!  Well, here we go..they postpone the court date jury trial.  I have evidence and a lot of it.  Documented medical, video of that same cop harrassing another disabled person and picking and choosing who to ticket and why.  Not to mention the amount for the same so called violations being different.  Well things changed again......Foreclosure on the house and I moved to Florida and my attorney telling me not to worry about it, he would take care of it..Surely it would be dropped.
I  get a notice telling me to come to court in March.  No can do.  I am in Florida and husband has gotten much worse regarding his treatments and walking.   I get told OK..don't worry it is a formality thing..setting these court dates.  Well today I get a  letter from my attorney..not certifed to be in court not only for trial but for jury selection in June.  This thing has gone on for two years.I want to fight this but it is not feasible with him in such medical pain and therapy.  These people need investigating.  I thought I left all this behind but you know what..I show up or get a bench warrant.  If somehow the jury finds me guilty which is beyond my comprehension, then I pay a lot more and those folks ,,most all think I am a liberal socialist....which, by their standards, I am but actually I am a moderate.   We are not talking reasonable law or reasonable justice here.

Witnesses are not around anymore.  Husband cannot make the trip and I say, I don't need to keep paying for this ticket fighting because they are really wanting to make an example out of me being an advocate.  I even have a vet who is a police captain in another county ready to testify saying this is bogus.  I can't go back 500 miles and stay 4  or 5 days to fight because circumstances change and would plead nolo even though I had rather eat nails...to put my husband through another round of pain and leaving therapy and just plain nonsense.  My lawyer is no wimp, he is a magistrate judge and badass to the bone but now the DA is ticked at him for fighting them so hard.  Here is my dillema.  My husband, a witness is not able to make that far a trip again.  I hate returning to the land of Egypt of bondage to deal with these Ga rednecks but I hate like Hell paying the ticket..but guess what..they won't let me pay it anymore.  Now it is a big deal.  I got letters from VA docs and legal documents of the law regarding the vehicle and caretaker plus he was in the car.  NOW....if I go back up there....rest assured they are gonna try and hang me......but if and this is a big IF...I go back I want the damn New YorK Times and every Veteran and disability advocate in that courtroom and then I want a lawsuit against Carroll County state of Ga.  This is ridiculous.   I have had a car stolen...they did nothing to the perpertrator...child interference with custody...they did nothing......a child I had custody of get taken for 6 weeks by a bio meth head...they did nothing.......a teenage daughter get molested, the story by her told on videotape and two witnesses when she was 15......cops did nothing.......but I get a parking ticket of which I am not guilty and they want to do something.
I know I am a political pain in their side but I have left.  I have fought them for years to do the right thing which of course they never did.   Now  what the hell am I supposed to do?