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Originally Posted by Phant84
My Question:
Is there anyway of fighting this? It is my 1st speeding ticket.
BTW, I checked the cruise control after everything, and it stayed on 70 the entire time.
Thanks in advance for your help
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Sure, you can fight it. You'll have to go where the court is and persuade the judge that the officer was wrong and you're right. I know, I know, the presumption is that you were innocent, but let's be realistic. This is the same judge that heard this officers' tickets last week and will hear them again the week after you're gone, but that MAY not be against you if the officer has a reputation for writing squirrelly tickets.
When I was a prosecutor in the mid-80's, there were five troopers writing tickets in my district. Of those I lost at trial, I'll be willing to bet that half of them came from the same officer. Do the math: He wrote 20% of the citations and lost half (if not more) of the tickets in court. Why? The judge knew he was a loser.
Depending on the cost of the ticket and the effect on your insurance, you may want to talk to an attorney that handled traffic offenses in that area. There may be a "deferred sentence" arrangement under which you are placed on probation for a short time, and if you don't have any other tickets in that time (90 days or 6 months), your ticket is dismissed and not reported to the agency that counts the points against your driving record. However, most places require the offender to pay the ticket and court costs in order to get such a sentence. Being in Arkansas, I couldn't tell you what a traffic court in Texas would require.