Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmum.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watmum!gvcormack From: gvcormack@watmum.UUCP (Gordon V. Cormack) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: RADAR problems (police honesty) Message-ID: <307@watmum.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 07:44:19 EST Article-I.D.: watmum.307 Posted: Tue Oct 29 07:44:19 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:05:10 EST References: <1321@cwruecmp.UUCP> <369@gcc-milo.ARPA> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 14 If you feel you are innocent, you should ALWAYS fight the ticket in court; it is your responsibility as a citizen. You may lose but (a) you will have cost the system as much as the fine (b) you may win on a technicality (e.g. the officer may not show up to testify or may read his cheat sheets incorrectly) (c) the judge may actually believe you (explain the situation clearly and honestly -- do not add a lot of extra crap -- by the way, the original posting was over 10 lines long and never said the obvious thing (which I have assumed but a court will not) I WAS NOT SPEEDING: MY SPEED WAS XXXXX)) (d) the court may begin to notice a correlation between particular police officers and the number of contested cases (e) if you ever have subsequent hassles (like they try to take your license away) they will look at your record -- you cannot possible maintain your innocence if you pleaded guilty.