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Originally Posted by viffer
You ever pleade guilty to speeding when they accused you to recless driving?
No, but I get your point. I can think of two reasons one would do this - because one was guilty of reckless driving and therefore happy to take the lesser charge, or if one was innocent but concerned of being found guilty in spite of that and facing some serious consequences.
In the case at hand, if you didn't owe any money I fail to see what the consequences for you might have been, if you weren't being pursued legally.
In other words, in the reckless driving analogy, there is incentive for you to plead guilty in either scenario. In the situation with Deeb, I can see incentive for you to settle in the first scenario (IE if it wasn't clear that you didn't owe money), but I fail to see one if you clearly owed nothing.