ok so today i got my first speeding ticket...... and i cant ****ing believe it.... b/c for one it is for going 75 in a 50 and i sure as hell know that i was going at MOST 70 and his radar was only turned on for less than a second if that.... so im not sure how in the hell he got that reading.... but bascially i think i am going to goto the hearing and get a court date and hopfully the cop doesn't show up so i can just get it dismissed but if he does then i am prolly gonna have to make him discreditable.... i think i am going to work on a defence based on the calibration of the radar used.... b/c if it was not calibrated correctly it will read inaccurately so yea....also due to the angle he was in relation to me i think maybe just maybe it might have cause a cosine error in the radar gun as well thus making the reading inaccurate.... either way i really hope i can get out of this i mean even if i have to pay the fine as long as the dont give me points and make the incident goto my insurance ill be happy....

 

cops get paid to show up to court so he will def be there....fight all speeding tickets cuz most likely u will get it knocked down....good luck to ya

 

well i know they get paid to go but they dont want to sit in the court room and wait for 30 trials to go through proceedings just to get to the one that he needs to be there for so yea... hes a state cop too so he prolly pulls over so many people a day that he wont remember me at least i hope he doesn't remember me i really hope he doesn't.......... w/e im just gonna goto the court on the day it says and pled not guilty and get my trial date....... so yea...

 

i dont think you can beat it, there is pretty much no way they can be beat. take it to a lawyer and have them represent you. I have done that so many times and my tickets get dismissed, it takes a while but they go away completely. i have nothing on my record right now, and i have gotten almost 8 or 9 tickets.

 

It only takes a split second for a radar gun to work. Also, i don't know what state your in but back when i was in MA the ticketing officer did not have to be at court. They had one cop represent the district and he was there for all sitations heard that day.

 

did you ask to see the radar???
they have to show you unless you are on a highway 100km/h in canada
in canada now they have a process that if you want to fight it you go and see someone and they tell you what happened and usually they drop it down to 15 over which is no points

 

what part you from? back in august i was nervous about doing 10 over on my trip on highway 2 from Maine, US to Richibucto, NB. It took me about to St. John until i got passed by a few Honda's and a neon that must have been doing 160! Needless to say i bumped up my cruise control to about 130 and continued on.