shakran

JinnKai, before we get too excited here, we need to determine if she really was speeding. She has said multiple times that she wasn't speeding. What evidence do you have that she is lying about that? If you have none (and unless you're the cop who wrote the ticket, I don't see how you could have any) then your entire post was out of line.

Hundove it's gonna basically boil down to the size of the town. If it's a small town / sparsely populated county then 1) the prosecutor is bored and wants someone to prosecute and 2) the prosecutor, and the cop, are friends with the judge, probably hang out at the bar after work together, and unless you come up with some sort of incontrovertible proof that the cop's full of it, you're going to lose. Period.

I once got a BS ticket for 2 mph over in a 55 zone in a small Nebraska county I was passing through. I fought it, and lost, even though I proved the cop 1) didn't know how his radar worked 2) had never been certified in using his radar, 3) had never calibrated his radar, and 4) did not have a calibrated speedometer in his car. Any one of these facts should have automatically tossed the case out but it was a case of a small town "justice" system where everyone knew everyone else, and this was an easy way to put a few bucks in the town coffers.

Does that mean you shouldn't fight it? No, absolutely you should fight it, but unless you walk in there with a lawyer, you're almost guaranteed to lose, unless it's a large metro area where they don't have time to dick around with stupid little speeding tickets.


That is not true. The speed limit is the speed limit. The YELLOW speed limit signs are "suggested" speed limits, however a cop can still nab you if he feels you were driving "too fast for conditions" which is a very convenient charge since the cop gets to define the parameters. Very hard to get out of one of those.