Driving in marked lane, advice please

iluvusorin1 said:

What is the name of your state?New Jersey

My 2 mile journey on township road was interuptted by officer asking if I am DUI. I replied no (I offered him to take the test). Then he asked me if I know I swirled my car. I replied I didn't realized so he bluntly said you would have realized if you had hit the pole. Then he gave me ticket with $88 fine and 2 points. He also said he can give 6 such tickets and he has video also if I want to see.
I am sure I have not commited offence, so I pleaded not guilty (court date this week) and here is my reasoning

- I barely drove 2 miles, how come I went out of my lane 6 times.
- If I was driving so dangerously then he should have stoped me on first occurance rather than waiting for 6.
- The road has less than 1 foot of ramp, I am not sure how anybody can swirl on such road.
- I was with my wife, so if I was unconciously driving out of my lane, she would have told me to correct it.
- Driver swirl his/her car if she/he is drunk, is new driver or is insane. I am neither. I don't think there is any other reason swirling your car at 12 am on empty 2 lane road.
- I am driving for 100000 miles for 5 years now without single ticket.

Experts, I am not sure what I should do in court, plea bargain or figtht till the end ? please suggest any additional arguments.

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iluvusorin1 said:

I am not asian and has nothing to do with Asia (there are many other continents beside North America and Asia, can you guess where else ?). I would never generalize . I have tons of asian friends with clean driving record.

MY RESPONSE: As far as I'm concerned, there is NO OTHER continent other than the United States that means anything to me. I would suggest you go back home, if you can't obey our laws.




By swirl i mean sway or swing
Basically, officer said I was moving in and out of my lane like a drunk.

MY RESPONSE: In the United States, and when describing vehicle movement, there is no such thing as "swing" or "sway". Cars do not "swing" and they certainly don't "sway". They "swerve" from lane to lane.




Can you please provide your legal input rather than criticizing my language.

MY RESPONSE: No. I can't get past your sentence syntax which sounds Asian. If the cop pulled you over for swerving in and out of the lanes, then that's what you were doing. Your use of the English language is terrible. Please don't pass it down to your children. We don't need any more dummies.




I am very tense about the whole issue. I have court date this week. I came to this forum not to fix my English but to get some advice.

MY RESPONSE: Hey, at least you're getting "something" from this forum. You're getting someone to finally tell you that your use of the English language is terrible. That's worth something!

As for your court case, you're going to "swing" and "sway" in the wind.

IAAL

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