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A Colchester traffic ticket is heard at Norwich Superior Court (GA21), so you want a lawyer who knows that court and Connecticut traffic law โ not a generalist.
Colchester sits in the western part of New London County, a town that grew from a 1698 English settlement known as Jeremiah’s Farms into an ecclesiastical society by 1703. It still contains the smaller villages of Westchester and North Westchester, along with reservation land of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation. For a town of its size, Colchester has held onto an unusually rich and varied history โ educational, industrial, and cultural all at once.
Its first claim to note is Bacon Academy. In 1800 a prominent local farmer, Pierpont Bacon, died and left a large endowment to found a school; Bacon Academy opened its doors to the children of Colchester in 1803 and went on to educate generations, its name still carried by the town’s high school today. Industry followed soon after: in 1847 Nathaniel Hayward โ who, with Charles Goodyear, helped discover the process of vulcanizing rubber โ founded the Hayward Rubber Company here, shipping boots, shoes, and rubber goods across the country from a small inland town.
Colchester’s most distinctive thread is its Jewish history. Beginning in the late 19th century the town became home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Connecticut, part of the wave of Jewish farming settlement in the region. Residents established a Jewish cemetery in 1894 and founded Congregation Ahavath Achim in 1898, building a synagogue not long after, and by 1920 roughly half of Colchester’s population was Jewish. That heritage โ sometimes called a New England shtetl โ still shapes the town’s identity and institutions.
A town at the meeting of old turnpikes naturally became a road junction. Route 2, the expressway that follows the lines of two early-1800s turnpikes, runs through Colchester, joined by Route 16, Route 85, and Route 11 near the center. Those corridors carry the bulk of the commuter and through-traffic โ and the citations that come with it. We keep track of these roads and the enforcement along them, which is generally where the violations described below begin.
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Jay built Mr. Speeding Ticket on the belief: that everyone deserves a champion in their corner. Despite all the lawyer jokes and everything you hear, he still believes in the justice system,
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People often ask him how he can defend those accused of breaking the law. His answer is simple: he's not defending the offense, he's defending a right.
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Continuances delay a case but don't resolve it, and stacking them up can drag things out without changing the result. It's usually better to have the ticket reviewed and a genuine plan put in place.
Colchester cases go to Norwich Superior Court (GA21), which serves Colchester and the other towns around Norwich.
In many traffic matters an attorney can appear at the Norwich court on your behalf, so a personal trip may not be necessary. We can review your ticket and tell you what your appearance would involve.
Depending on the violation and your record, a conviction can add points to your Connecticut license and may affect your insurance. How much it matters depends on the details, which is why it's worth reviewing the ticket first.
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