Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:3834 sci.misc:2632 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!glenns From: glenns@sco.COM (Glenn Schmall) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.misc Subject: Re: Radar Message-ID: <1290@scolex> Date: 19 Sep 88 06:26:20 GMT References: <12462@duke.cs.duke.edu> Reply-To: glenns@sco.COM (Glenn Schmall) Distribution: na Organization: Hey check out that shar....... Lines: 39 In article <12462@duke.cs.duke.edu> gazit@bein.UUCP (Hillel Gazit) writes: > >I was caught by a police radar which claimed that I was going 65 MPH. >My speed was 55 MPH. I think that something was wrong with the radar, >so I want to challenge the policeman in court. > >Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu I dont know how highwary patrol handle things out there in NY, but here on the west coast, If a patrol tags you with radar, you have the right to ask the officer to show you the gun showing the speed that he is going to right you up for. Now if the gun has been cleared, You can bring this up in court and they will toss the case out. Out here at least, you cannot be tagged by radar only (except in special circumstances designated by city/county ordances) {Im assuming that this all happened on the highway}. The highway patrol must clock you in addition to zapping you with radar to make it stick. As for evidence that the gun itself is screwy, I heard that there are reports done by some federal agency proving that the guns were not "a sure means of determining speed". {Hence the highway patrol must clock you in addition to using the gun} I would assume that you could get your hands on one of these reports down at you local federal repository. {It would be worth $$$$ to me to go down and investigate.} good luck and stick the suckers. -glenns@sco. ps. my information comes to me by means of an unfortunate friend of mine who went to traffic school. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ What do you mean it just stopped....?! | ucbvax!ucscc!sco!glenns. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++