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Re: Ideas on how to handle crooked cop
First of all you may want to get a lawyer, you'll be suprised what about
a $100 will do. It may save you lots, and the lawyer is specifically
important in a pacing case (I recently got off a 45+ pacing ticket...
scott free).
If you can convince the court that the cop is knowingly doctering
testimony concerning the speed, this should be enough to get the ticket
droped, regardless of the fact that you were still going 9mph in excess.
Anyway, 9mph is very hard to hold up in court.
Unfortunately, the court has a tendency to believe a cop, maybe even over
two witnesses, so the fact that the court will believe you over the cop
is questionable, to be sure at least ask a lawyer. And also you may want
to look up the rules concerning pacing in your state, you'd be surprised
at some of the restrictions placed on the method; you may get lucky.
Crooked cops are troublesome, quotas are even worse, and justice rarely
important with speeding ticket... Good Luck.
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Hiren Thakar
email: h-thakar@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu
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On 3 May 1995, Rob Stokes wrote:
> The other night, a cop stopped me along with one other driver and wrote us
> up for 70 in a 55. He told me that he had paced us for 3 miles before
> stopping us. He said we both were going the same speed.
> I agree that we were going the same speed, but neither of us agreed to the
> charge of 70. In two separate conversation with the cop, we confirmed 64
> mph. (After this fact came out, the cop got real mad and uncooperative.)
> The other driver and I knew this was a crooked cop. Now we're working
> together to come up with a defense.
>
> One of the situations I think plays into this is the cop's quota of
> tickets for the month and when that quota is due. Since this occurred on
> April 30th, he was probably pushing it for tickets. Discovery is a
> process that I try to always use to get this information, but it never
> yields any useful information. How can I obtain this information from the
> county before the court date?
>
> Using my testimony and the other driver's testimony, I don't think we'll
> have a hard time disqualifying the cop as a witness. My scare is that the
> other driver's testimony of "I was doing 64 along with Rob" will be
> incriminating. Anyone have any ideas about how to keep this information
> from coming out in court. Remember, this will be a valid question the
> prosecution can ask.
> To consider one other option here, what about a notarized letter of
> testimony? A letter would be good because my witness would not be there
> to answer the prosecution's questions. Can I use a letter in court
> instead of the actual witness? If so, does the signature of "Under pain
> or penalty of perjury" make it a legal document?
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated. Please mail any responses to me. All 3
> of our news servers seem to be messed up. It might be from the recent
> Internet router change or our net is just broken.
> Rob Stokes
> Mail: RDStokes@Apple.Com
>
>
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