Nathan Manthey

Review of Cleveland municipal court

I was given a traffic ticket for rolling a stop si...

I was given a traffic ticket for rolling a stop sign and told that if I paid before my court date I wouldn't have to worry about court costs. Unfortunately, their online system was down for a full week so I couldn't pay my ticket or call off work for my date so I was assessed $141 in court costs on a fifty dollar ticket. I called two minutes after the court opened, was put on hold for over twenty minutes then was told that no matter what I have to pay court costs but if I had a problem with that I could reappear in court to contest my ticket and accrue another $141 in court costs. Every single aspect of this experience was infuriating and disappointing.