Look at these statistics

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The 17,000 who appealed and lost were very likely shafted by the judge, the fact that they went to the expense of appealing would indicate a clear conscience.

Or maybe things just didn't go thru yet, when I worked for a FFL, all but one kick back was for "failure to appear"  it was almost always a unpaid ticket from long ago( decades)  it would take months to get things "fixed" so they were no longer on the no-no list, even after the apeal.