EnSabahNur welcome back! I hope you had a good vacation.
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Interesting point here, if you read the entire "Default Conviction" paper, there is a little part that mentions that you have until a certain date to respond to the Default Conviction.
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I would love to analyze documents like the one you mention. If possible I think it would be an invaluable service to the readers of this forum to have a repository of actual court documents (with personal info deleted of course) to review.
As you say, if you have been convicted by "default", then there should be no need for you to respond to anything, therefore you have not yet been convicted by default.
I am curious as to exactly what you are being asked to respond to, and what kind of respose is being requested of you?
My guess, is that the paper work (or contract?) is stating that if you do not contest the default conviction by the due date, then you'll of accepted it.
I also assume that the paper work has spelled out for you exactly how you must go about contesting the default conviction. If my guesses are correct, then what you have done is to effectively contested the default conviction prior to the due date, but not according to the rules that have been supplied to you.
The next move may be to claim that since you did not respond according to "proper procedure", that the default convictions are therefore made final, however that would be a very weak stance to take, esp considering that your respose is to say that your are being defrauded and that the charges against you (the tickets) are fraudulant. If there is a proper procedure for a response, then it would have to made a law, otherwise you'd have no reason to abide by an arbitrary process.
I imagine someone on the other side of your letters will be working late at night reading the fine print, because he or she may be wondering what to do with someone who simply refuses to recognize not only the default conviction, but also the entire process, by claiming that the tickets are frudulant in nature.
What happens next should be very interesting.