re: Fighting a Washington PD ticket

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Fighting a Washington PD ticket

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Slim to none but what your cruise control says doesn't mean much. Federal law allows a 2.5 percent margin of error to your speedometer coming off the line. Do you have the tires you had when your car rolled off the line? Are they properly inflated? This could also affect the margin of error that your speedometer is showing.

Use a GPS to check out your speedometer.

Also the prosecutor or judge will probably talk about the Cosine Effect of radar which says that unless the cop was standing in the middle of the road when shooting your car the reading on the radar will show a reading LOWER than what you were actually traveling.

As far as the calibration records, I have a feeling they would be "accurate and up-to-date" as of your court date.

It's Washington PD...I'm sure many a weary traveler has fought their tickets to no avail.