GOOD & BAD MITIGATION IN THE TRAFFIC COURT

When you pleaded guilty before the Magistrate, you would be given a chance to say 
something "appealing" to persuade the Magistrate to give a lighter fine.


BAD MITIGATION


Never ever giving the following reasons in mitigation

i. I am sole breadwinner
ii. I have a wife and kids to maintain
iii. I have an old parent to look after
iv. I am an odd jobs worker and has no steady income
v. or the likes

Reasons : The Judge would normally turn the whole things back to you and might simply say " you would not committed this offence if you have the heart of considering all these troubles that your family might suffer, it was you that never bother and symphatizing your family by committing this offence. And now you have the face of asking this honourable court to syphatize them, shame on you !

Instead, consider the following....

GOOD MITIGATION

i. This is my first offence, I repented and promise this honourable court that I will be more careful  
    next time
ii. i was in a rush to respond to the nature's call nearby, felt very sorry but I was left without a choice
iii. I was in the state of emergency sending the ill victim to nearby clinic
iv. I was chasing the snatch thief
v. In front me was a big tanker lorry, I could not see the traffic lights, I move as the lorry moves
vi. I could not see the traffic lights clearly because it was hidden by the tree branches

If the offence took place late midnight, try the following:

Your Honor, it was late at nite, no cars and other traffics around. It was between me alone and the traffic lights. In such circumstances, I will have to seek redress of my own judgments. At that time, I found that no cars coming from all angles and it was safe for me to move on despite the red lights. Your Honor, the lights are just mere prefix machines, it has no eyes and has no brain too. It blinks when the time comes. But i am a reasonable human being capable of weighing the circumstances at that nite. I leave it to your lordships whether to trust me or to trust that bloody prefix machines which has no brain and eyes.

Your Honour, may I have the privilege of a Cautioned and Discharged order