{"id":899,"date":"2019-02-27T06:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/?p=899"},"modified":"2019-02-27T06:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:21:28","slug":"traffic-fines-and-admissions-of-guilt-will-they-earn-you-a-criminal-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2019\/traffic-fines-and-admissions-of-guilt-will-they-earn-you-a-criminal-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Fines and Admissions of Guilt \u2013 Will They Earn You a Criminal Record?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe must not make a scarecrow of the law\u201d (Shakespeare)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A criminal record, even for a minor offence from decades back, comes with very serious and lifetime consequences. It will hang around forever, just waiting to ambush you when you apply for a job, or a travel visa, or a firearm licence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So acquiring a record inadvertently is the stuff of nightmares, and the question is whether you can land yourself in that position by paying an admission of guilt fine? The reality is that we are beset by so many laws and regulations covering every aspect of our lives that most of us have paid admission of guilt fines at one time or another. Usually it\u2019s just to avoid having to defend ourselves in the unpredictability and delay of an over-burdened court system. Sometimes it\u2019s the more serious matter of avoiding a stay in a police cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A remedy, but it\u2019s not ideal\u00a0<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remedy, once you do have a record, is to apply for \u201cexpungement\u201d of the record to remove it from the CRC (SAPS\u2019 Criminal Record Centre)\u2019s database. Expungement is however only available to you after 10 years and for certain \u201cminor offences\u201d \u2013 plus your application will take a long time to process (\u201c20 \u2013 28 weeks\u201d per SAPS). Note that some specified minor convictions fall away automatically after 10 years \u2013 ask for specific advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all, prevention is very definitely better than cure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When are you at risk?<br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You will acquire a criminal record if you are arrested, if the police open a docket and take fingerprints, and if you are thereafter convicted of a crime.<\/li><li>Does that apply to admission of guilt fines? Firstly, with traffic offences find out what section of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) is involved. Minor offences \u2013 speeding, licence offences, illegal parking and the like are normally \u201cSection 341\/Schedule 3\u201d offences, where there is no actual prosecution and therefore no criminal record to end up in the CRC.<\/li><li>Other offences however will likely be dealt with as \u201cSection 57\/57A\u201d offences. An admission of guilt in those cases lands you with a \u201cdeemed\u201d conviction and sentence, and\u00a0<strong>until recently, that deemed conviction and sentence could well have ended up in the CRC database.<\/strong>\u00a0In practice you would probably still have been in the clear if you weren\u2019t actually arrested and fingerprinted, but several years ago there was talk of convictions being captured with just a name and ID number. If you want to be sure, apply for a clearance certificate &#8211; see \u201cApplying for a Police Clearance Certificate (PCC)\u201d on the SAPS\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saps.gov.za\/services\/applying_clearence_certificate.php\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>.<\/li><li>A \u201cSection 56 Written Notice to Appear in Court\u201d may also give you the option of paying an admission of guilt fine to avoid appearance in court \u2013 in which event section 57 would apply as above.<\/li><li>The point though is that a recent High Court decision means that any admission of guilt fine \u2013 even a section 57\/57A one and even after an arrest and fingerprinting \u2013 should\u00a0not\u00a0lumber you with a \u201cpermanent conviction\u201d.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In other words, the new position is that while a court-imposed conviction and sentence&nbsp;will&nbsp;end up in the CRC, an admission of guilt fine should not.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s illustrate with a look at the case of the roadside grass seller\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A grass seller\u2019s R500 admission of guilt fine comes back to haunt him<br><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2010 a roadside seller of instant grass quarreled with another grass seller about use of a particular spot on the road. The other seller laid assault charges against him, alleging he slapped her twice and pushed her.<\/li><li>Arrested, detained and fingerprinted, the accused paid a R500 admission of guilt fine when given the option to do so. Per standard procedure a magistrate then \u201cexamined\u201d the documents and the accused\u2019s \u201cdeemed\u201d assault conviction and sentence were entered firstly into the court\u2019s record books and then into the CRC database.<\/li><li>The accused learned of his criminal record for the first time when in 2018 he applied to become an Uber driver (a police clearance certificate being an Uber requirement).<\/li><li>He turned to the High Court to set aside his conviction and sentence on the basis that he thought signing the admission of guilt was his only way of obtaining release from custody and that his rights had not been explained to him. Effectively he denied the assault, and took the chance that the State might still decide to pursue the prosecution in court.<\/li><li>The Court set aside our grass seller\u2019s conviction and sentence, characterising this type of admission of guilt as \u201cnot a verdict\u201d but rather \u201cessentially an agreement between the State and the accused\u201d intended only for \u201ctrivial offences\u201d, and involving no consideration as to \u201cwhether the accused was in fact and in law guilty of the offence\u201d.\u00a0<\/li><li>The Court: \u201cA conviction and sentence following an entry into the admission of guilt record book by the clerk of the criminal court in the magistrates\u2019 court is not a conviction whose record is permanent\u201d nor \u201cto be entered in the Criminal Record System\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bottom line<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Court found that this accused had been pressured into admitting guilt and ordered that the Minister of Police be served with a copy of its order with a view to taking advice from the Commissioner of Police in \u201cdevising policy to address the criticism that the SAPS use arrest and detention to force vulnerable members of society who fear being locked up, to admit guilt on petty crimes using arrest and the threat of continued detention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>But even once such a new policy emerges, be careful here and have your lawyer advise you in the slightest doubt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must not make a scarecrow of the law\u201d (Shakespeare) A criminal record, even for a minor offence from decades back, comes with very serious and lifetime consequences. It will hang around forever, just waiting to ambush you when you apply for a job, or a travel visa, or a firearm licence.&nbsp; So acquiring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101014,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-law-crime","category-general-interest","category-road-traffic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Traffic Fines and Admissions of Guilt \u2013 Will They Earn You a Criminal Record? &#8226; LawDotNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dotnewsconnect.co.za\/law\/2019\/traffic-fines-and-admissions-of-guilt-will-they-earn-you-a-criminal-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Traffic Fines and Admissions of Guilt \u2013 Will They Earn You a Criminal Record? &#8226; LawDotNews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWe must not make a scarecrow of the law\u201d (Shakespeare) A criminal record, even for a minor offence from decades back, comes with very serious and lifetime consequences. 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