A8 + Road Trip = Ticket! Radar?
07-13-2004, 06:10 AM
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Fight the ticket by mail.
Do not admit guilt, Deny that you were traveling at 86 mph (unless you're sure you were), and you'll probably not get a ticket, as 80% of 'fight by mail' tickets get thrown out, usually for officer's failure to respond.
Last I heard, police get paid double time to show up in court, and nothing for writing letters for 'fight by mail' tickets.
Since you know roughly what he's going to write, if you can demonstrate a reasonable explanation for his 'confusion', you can probably get it tossed even if he responds.
Not to suggest you lie, but, hey, maybe your wife wasn't going exactly 86, maybe the officer confused her with someone else, etc.
Did they use aircraft or just radar?
Last I heard, police get paid double time to show up in court, and nothing for writing letters for 'fight by mail' tickets.
Since you know roughly what he's going to write, if you can demonstrate a reasonable explanation for his 'confusion', you can probably get it tossed even if he responds.
Not to suggest you lie, but, hey, maybe your wife wasn't going exactly 86, maybe the officer confused her with someone else, etc.
Did they use aircraft or just radar?
07-13-2004, 08:05 PM
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Re: Valentine one, no question about it. Fight the ticket by mail,
I am fairly certain that it was by radar, but I actually do not think she was going 86.
The cop did not say much, smiled and gave a ticket, all in less than 5 minutes.
I have always wondered about the speed tracking through aircraft. Is this real? How can you tell?
The cop did not say much, smiled and gave a ticket, all in less than 5 minutes.
I have always wondered about the speed tracking through aircraft. Is this real? How can you tell?
07-14-2004, 06:46 AM
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It should tell on your ticket how he determined the speed.
The following is what I was told by a ticket attorney, if any of it applies/helps:
1. It's all the better if the cop doesn't remember you.
2. Wait until two days before the initially scheduled court appearance, then call the court and tell them you can't make your appearance b/c you are from out of town, and need to file for permission to 'fight by mail'.
They will grant you an extension just to file the petition to fight by mail, usually another month or two, and then, at the end of that period, finally turn in your written 'not gulty' plea argument.
3. At that point, as much as six months will have passed since the citation. Most likely the officer will have no specific recollection of your ticket except whatever minimal notes he scribbled down at the time. If you were 'unremarkable' at the stop, he'll have little personal recollection and won't have much of a story to write, if he even bothers.
4. At that point most of the time they don't even bother, or write a very minimal amount. That's where your timed extensions and well-written defense all pay off.
You'll get your ticket money back and a nice little letter of dismissal a month later.
1. It's all the better if the cop doesn't remember you.
2. Wait until two days before the initially scheduled court appearance, then call the court and tell them you can't make your appearance b/c you are from out of town, and need to file for permission to 'fight by mail'.
They will grant you an extension just to file the petition to fight by mail, usually another month or two, and then, at the end of that period, finally turn in your written 'not gulty' plea argument.
3. At that point, as much as six months will have passed since the citation. Most likely the officer will have no specific recollection of your ticket except whatever minimal notes he scribbled down at the time. If you were 'unremarkable' at the stop, he'll have little personal recollection and won't have much of a story to write, if he even bothers.
4. At that point most of the time they don't even bother, or write a very minimal amount. That's where your timed extensions and well-written defense all pay off.
You'll get your ticket money back and a nice little letter of dismissal a month later.
