re: Man turns camera ticket into constitutional trial of the century

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That's awesome.

Camera tickets are complete B.S.

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It is awesome, but it should also point out a significant flaw in the traffic court system as a whole, not just the camera tickets. This gentleman is a law professor, so it cost him nothing to argue his case (even though he hasn't received his bond money back yet).

For the layperson, getting an attorney for $150/hr to contest a $120 speeding fine simply doesn't make sense. It is a pure racket, and entire law enforcement departments are funded on the back of that racket.

Take a backwoods operation like the Jeanerette City Marshal's office. Their expenditures have increased nearly 6 fold in the last 10 years and they're more than 16 times higher than they were in 2000, all while Jeanerette's population is down 10% in that time frame. These frickers are patrolling Hwy 90 writing speeding tickets and doing so on a budget more than 3 times the size of New Iberia's city marshal. It is the epitome of corruption.