Originally Posted by baddog

You will have to appear. When I was in Germany last month one of my friends told me that he got popped for a CA traffic warrant that was many years old.

Only other option would be to hire an attorney to appear for you. There are plenty of attorneys out there that will make appearances for chump change, but there is no guarantee that it would work.

I would contact the Bar Association for the county your ticket was issued in for referrals.