I've seen crazy things like that happen.

I watched a judge right here in my home town sentence a young man (19 years old) to six months in the county jail despite the fact that the prosecutor agreed with the defense attorney that no justice would be served by incarceration. Let that sink in for a moment. The prosecutor didn't want the kid jailed.

Cops, lawyers, judges... trust 'em at your own peril.

 

Had no idea VASCAR could be used in the opposite direction, sounds sketchy to me. I'd definitely fight it.

I've had a cop straight up lie to my face, said I was doing 66 in a 50, when I was only 3-4 over, it was an undercover rig and I knew he was a cop because he was running constant on k-band radar and I told him that, he then claimed he was using LIDAR, which can't be done from a moving vehicle. He eventually figured out I'm not a dumbass and let me go.
Agreed.

 

Yea ok! Pay the damn ticket and be done with it. You were speeding either way. LOL

 

If he was only going 57 in a 55 then he shouldn't pay the ticket if the cop is in the wrong. Not only does paying the ticket admit guilt, it jacks up your insurance rates.

If it's your first speeding ticket they may offer a driver improvement course and drop the ticket.

 

So I should pay for going 70 in a 55, suffer from Higher Insurance rates, and points on my license?

 

Were you actually going 70 in a 55?

 

I don't believe so.

 

LOLOL

Faster or slower?

If your speedo isn't accurate, you should probably figger out how much it lies by. If you don't think you were going as fast as the cop says you were, then by all means, fight it. If you were actually doing 70... or more...... well...... you are guilty, shouldn't you pay the penalty then? Do the crime, do the time?

 

If I actually believed I was going 70 (or close to it) I wouldn't of taken this much interest in it. I honestly believe I was going somewhere between 55 and 63ish.. we'll just say 65 for arguments sake.

My speedo is off by about 3 mph when going over 60. Atleast that's what my GPS unit indicates, and it reads the same as my mom's Monte Carlo's Speedo.

 

Maybe the State Patrol was running radar with airplanes. They do that sometimes in Iowa, and the trooper just drives back and forth on the highway waiting for the plane to radio down a speeder.

Either way you were speeding. Pay the ticket. There are BS things you get tickets for, but speeding is blatant. You got caught, pay the fine.

Best way to fight speeding tickets is to not speed.