The state of New York where you received your speeding ticket and California, the state in which you are licensed in, are both members of the Drivers License Compact. This means that the NYS DMV will report back to the CA DMV this out of state citation if you pay the ticket by pleading guilty and thus are convicted of the violation.

A speeding ticket in New York typically results in 3 to 11 points depending on the amount of miles per hour over the speed limit you were ticketed for. According to the California DMV violation points assessment listing though out of state speeding violations are only assigned 1 point.

With this information it would appear that California will place the New York speeding citation on your California driving history and assign it points. It should not go on your criminal record though unless there is more to this ticket beyond speeding so that it would be called a criminal offense instead of just a moving violation which is typically just a misdemeanor.

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