Lake Forest Park judge reduces fines, grants deferred findings and dismisses one speeding ticket in Nov. 24 infraction calendar

Judge Grant convened the Lake Forest Park Municipal Court infraction calendar remotely on Nov. 24, 2025, and handled a series of traffic and registration matters, reducing penalties in several cases, granting at least one deferred finding, dismissing a contested speeding ticket and reissuing or defaulting two failure-to-appear matters.

The court reduced or mitigated penalties for multiple drivers who appeared by Zoom. Abraham, Bare asked the court to consider late hour, the absence of a flashing beacon and work-related driving; the judge mitigated that driver’s photo-enforcement school-walk-zone citation and set a reduced payment of $75 due Jan. 20. Chunlan Jin, who had two violations at the same location, told the court that construction and detours led to unfamiliar routing; the judge reduced the earlier higher-speed violation to $150 and the later one to $50, for a combined reduced total of $200, and offered a time-payment plan with the first payment not due until Jan. 20.

Other defendants received reductions or alternative dispositions. Mulu Aberra had a double-penalty school-zone citation reduced to $175 with…