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Termyn8or -> RE: Traffic Ticket (9/18/2007 5:51:08 PM)
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If it's a local jurisdiction the prosecutor's office number should be in the phone book. You sped you are going to pay, but you want it reduced to a two point or no pouint violation. This will probably affect your insurance as well.
The judge does not want to hear it, the way you puyt it is "I know I wasn't going that fast, and I won't plead without a deal, otherwise we will have a team of MASA researchers and and three neurosurgeons round the clock". Something like that. All you can offer them is to save them time, give them their money and GTFO. In exchange, take the two pointer.
Otherwise you go to court. Things like this are the only leverage a licensed driver has. In Ohio, had you been doing 40 in a 25 I know another trick, but that does not apply here. I'll mention it real quick, see if you can make it apply. If you are busted in Ohio for 40 in a 25, you can actually challenge the speed limit. You subpeona the actual traffic survey and the conclusions that made it a 25 MPH zone. Most cities do not have it, as they have arbitrarily set the speed limit. By doing this you are accusing them of using a speed trap. You alledge that as a safe and responsible driver, under Ohio law, you saw that this area should be a 35 MPH limit. When a city lowers it from the state norm for calculating these limits, it needs to have that survey. If not, case dismissed.
I dunno if you can apply any of this to your situation, I am not familiar with the laws up there so I simply do not know. But if any locality lowers a speed limit, it can usually be challenged. At 78 in a 55, if the limit should've been 65, you got something. If it is in the city, especially near downtown, you are fucked.
Perhaps you should take your licks and slow down. You might have to. I was never one to support cops out there acting like Gestapo, but people really do need to learn how to drive. Judge thyself, were you going too fast ? In heavy traffic this is not proper. I only lay the hammer down in sparse or no traffic. Speed doesn't scare me, I found a passing gear at 105 MPH once, but I was the only one on that road. I know it for sure. The freeway had not yet opened (I 90 west side of Cleveland).
It was appropriate then, the odds of hurting anyone were incalculably thin. In traffic, a whole different set of rules apply.
Caveat.
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