re: LIDAR Speeding Ticket

Ease off the adderall

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I am not going in court and say I was speeding. That's idiotic. I am just going to invoke my 5th amendment when they start asking how fast I was going. My argument is that he did not measure my speed correctly. I am just casting doubt on his evidence.

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So you think you are going to get to tell your side of the story, and when the tough question comes, you just shut up?

FYI, I just forwarded this thread to Troop I.

The only thing you have going for you is the distance. Some states have a max distance that they will "allow" in court because the beam gets larger the further out it goes. They will still hope you just pay up and don't fight the ticket.

I'm in the same boat as you. I am fighting ab instant-on ticket right now. When I was going to enter a plea, the assistant prosecutor was incredibly insistent on me just paying the fine to keep it off of my record. He asked me if I wanted to 6 times in our 4 minute conversation. I told him I was definitely fighting it and that we would see what went on once I file for discovery.

I speed 99.99% of the time, but I knew he was there so I slowed down. I plan on wasting as much of these frickers time as I can over a simple traffic ticket just to prove a point. Sure I could call and ask them to just drop it, but I wouldn't have gotten my point across then, and I wouldn't be able to see the cop get angry because he lost

I have fought 4 tickets before, and won every case. It is a major PITA, but I like pissing people off who are trying to screw me out of money.

It's incredible how this board is filled with so many trashy poors who speed and then rage and come up with nutty theories and defenses when they get caught.

The point is: that's not how it works Ms. Lerner.

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I told him I was definitely fighting it and that we would see what went on once I file for discovery.

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Oh no! Discovery! I bet he was terrified of a guy who's watched one too many Law and Order episodes.

Your an idiot if you think your going to just invoke when they ask the questions you don't want to answer. As a defendant you either invoke altogether or waive your right to silence. The second you begin to answer any question in court you have waived because the state has the right to cross. You'll be held in contempt if you refuse to answer at that point.

Reread: quit thinking you are smarter than the system.

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Your an idiot if you think your going to just invoke when they ask the questions you don't want to answer. As a defendant you either invoke altogether or waive your right to silence. The second you begin to answer any question in court you have waived because the state has the right to cross. You'll be held in contempt if you refuse to answer at that point.

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Good point. I wasn't planning to invoke it right away per se. I just wanted to shift the focus on the trooper who took down inaccurate data who took a real scientific technology and abused it.