re: Received a ticket today for driving 37/35

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A person at the city attorneys office. They said that if I come to court and plead not guilty that I will need an attorney going forward.

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This is something people in the legal field will say because it makes the system work quicker and more smoothly when it's being facilitated by people who know what they're doing.

But that's for their benefit, not yours. The clerk at the traffic court doesn't care about saving you money, so they'll just default to saying "you need a lawyer."

An attorney is an aid. Not a requirement.

You could plead not guilty to first-degree murder and not "need a lawyer."

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The vast majority of traffic citations are targeted for revenue, excluding citations for traffic accidents, running traffic control lights/signs, school zones, etc. it's mostly BS.

I've seen the county sheriff and his baws line up on the down ramps along the interstate highway while the radar is being used on the overpasses, this is right up near the airport so they can nail the folks coming and going from the airport. Most officers will admit when pressed that they're not necessarily running their speed traps in known areas of high accidents, they're running them where there's the potential for high revenue.

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I was tempted to fight it but was told that I would need a lawyer.

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Really? Whatever happened to representing yourself?

1. you don't need a lawyer
2. whether it's true or not I once was told the reason you can go about 5 over is they are supposed to allow 2 mph error to the driver and 2 mph error to their gun


If he/she actually wrote 37 in a 35...you should very easily be able to go to court and say you were doing 35.

Be lucky your alive your priveldged a-hole. Dont you know that if you were brown you would be dead!!!

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I got a bs ticket about 10 years ago where a trooper zapped a car similar to mine, and due to his incompetence, I wound up with the ticket. The car he clocked actually passed me before getting pulled over. It was at night, light rain, in larger than normal traffic, the trooper was traveling the opposite direction on a divided highway, and he had to travel down the highway a half mile to turn around on a paved crossing. He had to use his blue lights in the left lane to get the car behind me to move back enough to get behind me.

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I swear I got pulled over for the same thing on I20 just outside Columbia. It was foggy and he was sitting right on the median divider. I was in the right lane behind a mini van going 67(in a 60). This reddish sedan flew pass me, when he saw the state police's Tahoe he hit the brakes. The state police took off. Right when it looked like he was about to pass me he instantly pulled behind me and put on his lights. He asked me how fast I was going, I told the truth and said 67. He said I was going much faster than that. I told him it was the reddish sedan that was in the left lane that was speeding(my car was blue). So he asked for my license and registration then asked what I do for a living. I told him I was retired Navy and I worked in Quantico Marine Base. Eventually he admitted he may have missed that one(probably review his dash cam ). He gave me a warning for saying I was going 67.

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I don’t believe you. An officer can’t ticket someone based off a radar reading while moving. Other methods but not radar.

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Oh yes they can. Every speeding ticket I have ever had was from meeting a cop or patrolman coming the opposite direction.

You can’t do it with laser. But you can with radar.

Come to MS and give your theory a try.

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Here in Gwinnett County if you plead not guilty you will get a rescheduled court date and the officer will be there. OP didn’t get a ticket for going 2 miles over the speed limit. It was 20. The 0 must have gotten smeared

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If that's the case, and the officer does indeed show up, then it's a toss-up. My experience is the judge tends to respect the fact you showed up instead of paying a fine. If you lose? You pay your ticket. That's the worst case in any event.

The alternative is pay the ticket, pay increased insurance premiums,and live live to the fullest, knowing your ticketing officer makes about 25k a year.