Recent content by FastbackJon

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? IDAHO Road trip driving into small town in Idaho with several other vehicles. My speedometer had broken an hour before. I was pulled over and let the officer know the speedometer has just broken. He seemed understanding until I said I was...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA I was ticketed coming into a small town in WA. My ticket showed 40 in a 25. I did the request for discovery and the officer's notes say I was going 46 in a 40. Mix those two up and you could get either 46 in a 25 or 40 in a 40. He also...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? ID My speedometer cable broke a few miles before coming into a small town in north Idaho. The speed dropped to 35 and so I reduced my speed like the vehicles around me. Pointing the other direction in a turn lane was an officer on his cell phone...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington The county recently put a sewer in my area and charged me about $5000 to do it. They spread out payments over 20 years so with interest, the balance would almost double if you include the interest paid if I stayed on their payment plan...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA Lets say you're driving normally and all of a sudden blue and red lights come on behind you. You pull over at the first safe location and are swarmed by four or five cop cars yelling over the loudspeaker to throw your keys out the window. Do...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WA My parents were married 25 years, my dad was a corrections officer. In the 25 years they were married, and 19 years that I lived with them both, neither one was phsically abusive and we never had the cops called out to the house. Dad passed...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? WASHINGTON I'm wondering what licensing/copyright/trademark issues are involved if one wanted to reproduce a set of computer instructions printed on the old 80-column punch cards from +40 years ago. These punch cards were never available to the...

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington. I bought a house 2 years ago. My sewer bill is high (about $70 a month). I found out half of this goes to construction and finance costs towards the sewer, of which I started out with around a $5,000 balance. There is a 6.00% APR on...

What is the name of your state? Washington Got a new neighbor that just built a house and put up a fence between us behind my house. Previously it was unimproved land. He put the fence 18 inches on his side of the property. He said he did that so he could get behind it and maintain it. I have...

What is the name of your state? Washington So I run a vehicle registry with a website, and on the website you can view the list of all of the registered vehicles. Vehicles are registered by people who send them in, and I go out and look for VINs and such to register those vehicles. Pictures...

What is the name of your state? Washington Part of Washington's seatbelt law (RCW 46.61.688) states that: (2) This section only applies to motor vehicles that meet the manual seat belt safety standards as set forth in federal motor vehicle safety standard 208 and to neighborhood electric...

What is the name of your state? Washington I would like to know the limit of the Judge in determining guilt. Let's say the law specifically states one thing, and that thing can be used to show the defendent is not guilty. Can the judge then legally ignore that part of the law, and say the...

What is the name of your state? Washington The seat belt law (RCW 46.61.688) in my state says: (3) Every person sixteen years of age or older operating or riding in a motor vehicle shall wear the safety belt assembly in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner. So my question is...

What is the name of your state? Washington. In late 2004 I was pulled over on the interstate and cited for agressive/negligent driving 2nd degree, $538 ticket. I knew I wasn't driving agressivly, but instead of risking the judge believing the cop over me, and thus me losing in court and paying...

What is the name of your state? Washington. I was driving a collector vehicle (in Washington State, where tabs are not required) and was cited with a $538 moving violation. I talked to a prosecutor before the court date, and I asked about getting it changed to a non-moving violation instead...