Originally Posted by kelmar

IMO... if you did the crime, pay the time (or money)

Originally Posted by chrisw

Kelmar, I think your going a little overboard....

6am on a clear highway? who are you causing harm to? Am I going to inconvienace you in some harmful way doing that?

give me a break. You probably do the same

besides... didn't he pay for the crime by taking all that time to fight the ticket?

Originally Posted by Kelmar

Well, you tell us that you squeezed your way (or were going to squeeze your way) out of a ticket that you deserved on a technicality. Did you expect an applause???

The way I see it, if I didn't want to pay the extra grand then I would stop speeding.

Originally Posted by Richard EVO

I'm an attorney, not an idiot. The defense was that in Calif., when an officer determines speed using the pacing method and his speedometer, the speedo must be calibrated. I conducted pre-trial discovery and found out that the state planned to introduce a piece of paper that purported to be a speedo calibration form. It was not certified, it was done by a non-government agency, and it was highly unlikely that they would bring the custodian of records from the testing service to testify how the test was performed, that the form was what it appeared to be, and was prepared in the ordinary course of business.

Therefore, the calibration form was inadmissible hearsay. I have won before with this defense. I don't expect most of you to understand this post, but if you do, it works.

Originally Posted by CDO

To all you "negative" posters, if a cop pulls you over tomorrow for speeding and says he'll just give you a verbal warning, how many of you will say, "No officer, I was speeding. Give me a ticket."

I'll bet not one of you.

Originally Posted by Kelmar

I'm not saying that I wouldn't do the same, though I rarely speed. I'm saying that if I was caught I would accept the result of my actions (regardless of how I felt about the situation).

Originally Posted by shawnhayes

Then get off the moral high horse.

If you don't go to the police station and turn yourself in every time you speed, then this bullcrap about "accepting the consequences of your actions" and "agreeing to when you got your driver's license" is a high and mighty self righteous self aggrandizing piece of garbage not worth the time spent typing it.

'Nuff said.

Shawn

Originally Posted by Richard EVO

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!! I see my mistake now.

I must have posted this thread on the PRIUS-OWNER'S BOARD, not EVOM.

Originally Posted by 4cefedgst

Dude that's not even the same thing. It's the cops discretion whether or not he wants to write you a ticket. In this case it sounds like he knew he was speeding, but won't accept the consequences. I speed all the time, but I'm also willing to accept the ticket when it's written. I'm just disgusted by our legal system and the lengths people will go to defend themselves knowing damn well their guilty.

Originally Posted by Spec'd

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Congratulations on your court victory.

We need people like you to balance the scales of justice
and keep our government in check.

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