What Can I Expect at Traffic Court in Missouri? Chris Combs, managing partner at Missouri’s top traffic law firm Combs Waterkotte, talks about the different Missouri courts you can find yourself in to fight a traffic ticket.
Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: Now, speaking of the court, so what is the traffic court process? What, what can I expect in a traffic court?
Chris Combs: Well, there’s two different types of traffic court. You’ve got traffic court in state court, and you have traffic court in municipal courts. So Missouri, of course, has, I think near 200 municipalities.
Chesterfield, Wildwood, Hazelwood, Jennings, Brentwood, Clayton, on and on. They all have their own courts. So it could be out of one of those jurisdictions or it could be in state court. A lot of the tickets you see in state court are issued by Missouri State Highway Patrol, that automatically means you’re going to state court.
It can be a little bit more difficult to work out cases in state court than it is in municipal court.
Scott Michael Dunn: Yeah.
Chris Combs: However, those are the two jurisdictions that you’re going to see or find yourself in, is either municipal or state.
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