The City of White Plains Police Department is relentless when it comes to issuing speeding tickets. This is especially so in school zones. At Tilem & Campbell we are routinely retained by motorists who received a school zone speeding ticket in White Plains. Many of these White Plains speeding tickets…
In New York, it is illegal for one to operate a motor vehicle while that person’s ability to operate the motor vehicle is impaired by the use of a drug as defined in VTL § 114-a (See VTL § 1194(4) for the exact wording of the statute). Vehicle and Traffic…
The City of White Plains hosts one of the busiest traffic courts in Westchester County and probably the most common traffic infraction cited in White Plains is speeding. That’s understandable with Interstate 287, the Hutchinson River Parkway and the Bronx River Parkway running through it. As a result, in addition…
For the most part, yes, in New York, bicyclists are subject to the same rules of the road as motor vehicles. In fact, in New York City it is not uncommon for bicyclists to be “pulled-over” and issued tickets for violations committed while traveling on their bicycles. There are, of…
The simple answer is no. Emergency vehicles in New York are defined as police vehicles or bicycles, ambulances, fire, corrections and civil defense emergency vehicles as well as sanitation patrol vehicles, emergency response vehicles, certain vehicles of the United States Armed forces and hazardous materials emergency vehicles. VTL § 101.…
New York Criminal Defense Lawyers Peter Tilem and Peter Tilem appeared on the Star and Buc Wild Morning Show yesterday morning and sat in on the show from 8 am until 10 am. The Star and Buc Wild Show, which is featured on the Pulse 87.7 FM, has hosted the…
New York Traffic Ticket Lawyers, Tilem & Campbell are please to announce the posting of their newest web paging entitled “New York City Traffic Tickets“. The page is designed to be a primer of the practices of the New York Traffic Violation Bureau Courts (TVB) that operate in New York…
New York criminal defense firm Tilem & Campbell has filed Court papers seeking to prevent the use of mandatory minimum sentences in federal crack cases. Citing the reasoning in the recent Supreme Court decision, Kimbrough v United States that permitted Federal District Courts to consider the “100-1” ratio when considering…
New York Criminal Defense Law Firm, Tilem & Campbell, scored another major victory in a New York gun case when it won a complete dismissal of all charges in a Bronx County case yesterday using a federal defense under the Firearm Owners Protection Act (FOPA). The original charges included Criminal…
Another compelling reason not to allow the issuing officer to also act as the prosecutor in a New York traffic violation case is supported by the Latin maxim “inclusio unius est exclusio alterius”. What this Latin Maxim means is that where a law expressly describes a situation where it applies,…