In Nashville, Tennessee are tickets fixed if you have connections and what about other states?

Still, when NewsChannel 5 analyzed tickets written in an 18-month period, we discovered all of those tickets were dismissed by defense attorneys -- defense attorneys who sometimes take the bench while Nashville's elected judges are off doing other things.
"Special judges have a special relationship with the court and the public and they have to act beyond reproach," said former prosecutor David Raybin.
And what stunned Raybin even more was the scope.
Out of almost 1,800 speeding tickets retired or dismissed by all Davidson County judges, 1,300 were dismissed by those attorneys sitting as special judges. That's almost three out of every four.


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