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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
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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.