re: Traffic Ticket Advice UPDATED: CASE DISMISSED/ NOT GUILTY

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As they are passing, you begin recording the trooper speeding with your cell phone, verifying the high rate of speed with your own speedometer.

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Why in the hell would you do that? You earned that ticket. Congratulations!

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Wouldn't his best bet for your cell phone video of him speeding not coming to light be to just drive away and never interact with you again???

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No. As stated before, the trooper has just finished another traffic stop when I passed, then trooper caught up to me doing 90 plus without lights on and was clearly not in performance of her duties. Only speeding.

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Why would you care if a cop is speeding? They know they don’t have to follow the rules

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spoken like an ignorant child. Boomer? How about citizen that knows their rights and the law.

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you get roughly 2 to 3 car lengths behind the trooper as you both pass the slower traffic

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Going how fast?

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Didn’t expect to end up on the cop’s side but you’ve outdone yourself in this thread op

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probably bc group think is real. A bunch of fools aren't grasping the situation at all and can only see

You videod a cop speeding. You deserve any ticket they want to write = pure stupidity

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Going how fast?

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now we're getting to the good questions. I would estimate 70 to 75 MPH in the left lane, passing an 18 wheeler

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Only documented the speeding violation then stopped filming as its illegal to drive and use cell phone sans a few exceptions

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So you’re admitting that you broke the law

Sounds like case open and shut to me.

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2 to 3 car lengths behind the trooper

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70 to 75 MPH

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You were following too closely.

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2023 Code of Alabama
Title 32 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic.
Chapter 5A - Rules of the Road.
Article 4 - Driving on and Use of Roadways Generally; Overtaking and Passing.
Section 32-5A-89 - Following Too Closely.

(a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow another more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the traffic upon and the condition of the highway. Except when overtaking and passing another vehicle, the driver of a vehicle shall leave a distance of at least 20 feet for each 10 miles per hour of speed between the vehicle that he or she is driving and the vehicle that he or she is following.

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By law you should have left at least 140 feet between yourself and the trooper. You said you left 2-3 car lengths.

Regardless of how you feel about the 20 feet per 10 mph metric, I think 2-3 car lengths at 70 mph is pretty objectively too close to make any reasonable argument otherwise.

TL;DR, you’re fricked.