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Message: [QUOTE="CTBasketball, post: 4683348, member: 2809"] Plead not guilty. Best case scenario is the officer doesn’t show up. If he does, he’ll likely offer you a lesser fine or if denied you’ll go to the courtroom. First line of defense you can take is ask the officer to present the statute and up to date law that you broke. Make sure it’s updated, a lot of smaller towns don’t care to update their statutes every year. That’s an automatic get out of jail free. Second thing is to question the speed recording. Ask what type of measurement the officer used to monitor your speed (might be on your ticket). Ask if the radar gun (if used) was calibrated and ask for the documentation showing such. It needs to be in court, you need to prove reasonable doubt against the charge. Not sure on the weather when you got pulled over, but certain radar guns are ineffective in high humidity and moisture (snow, rain, fog, drizzle). Water particles impact the radar signal slightly, if you want data on this I can provide it. If the officer fails to have any of the above or used the “stop counting method” where they count seconds until you pass and estimate speed, you can use a simple questioning procedure to “trick” him into saying you were going an unrealistic speed. For example, “Officer would you say I was about 1/4 mile away from you or greater?” Then follow up with “and about how many seconds did you count me driving toward you in your vision?” 99% of the time he’ll answer some BS and you can calculate speed by diving the distance he gives by the speed, then converting miles/sec to miles/hour quickly. If he says you go 1/4 mile in 4 seconds then you can calculate that he said you were going ~230 mph. Then you print out the specs of your car to prove that’s not possible. I can go on and on. [/QUOTE]

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