What is the name of your state? TENNESSEE
I recently received a speeding ticket because I was in the vicinity of another car who was actually speeding. This car came up behind me at a high rate of speed, passed and continued to pull away. As we went over a hill, (one tenth on a mile away from the officers) I saw what looked like an accident. There were two officers wearing orange reflective vests. As I approached I could see one of the officers with a radar gun. The other officer motioned to the lady in the car who had just passed me, to pull over onto a side street. As I began to give the officer the "thumbs up" He pointed at me and motioned for me to pull over behind the lady. He wrote her a ticket then came back to my car. He said "I got you and Miss (unintelligible) at forty miles an hour on the dot"
There was no way that this lady who had just quickly closed in behind me, passed and continued to pull away, was going the same speed as me. (I wondered if the officer that motioned to me thought that the thumbs up was some other finger and just thought he would teach me a lesson).
Anyway, I was so upset by this that I Emailed the precinct to complain about what had happened. The lieutenant responded by telling me that the officer used laser and that it was "vehicle specific" and that their units are tested for accuracy periodically.
I did notice that on the ticket the officer checked "Radar" as the means used to measure my speed. There was no box for "Laser". Is this a technicality that I could use in my court hearing? I mean technically if the officer used "laser" and not "radar" as he checked, could he simply have hand written "Laser" ?
Other than the fact that I was about four car lengths behind the lady when my speed was being read giving the officer a bad angle to record my speed, are there ways of sucessfully arguing that the officer's Laser was defective?
Thanks,
John/ [email protected]What is the name of your state?
I recently received a speeding ticket because I was in the vicinity of another car who was actually speeding. This car came up behind me at a high rate of speed, passed and continued to pull away. As we went over a hill, (one tenth on a mile away from the officers) I saw what looked like an accident. There were two officers wearing orange reflective vests. As I approached I could see one of the officers with a radar gun. The other officer motioned to the lady in the car who had just passed me, to pull over onto a side street. As I began to give the officer the "thumbs up" He pointed at me and motioned for me to pull over behind the lady. He wrote her a ticket then came back to my car. He said "I got you and Miss (unintelligible) at forty miles an hour on the dot"
There was no way that this lady who had just quickly closed in behind me, passed and continued to pull away, was going the same speed as me. (I wondered if the officer that motioned to me thought that the thumbs up was some other finger and just thought he would teach me a lesson).
Anyway, I was so upset by this that I Emailed the precinct to complain about what had happened. The lieutenant responded by telling me that the officer used laser and that it was "vehicle specific" and that their units are tested for accuracy periodically.
I did notice that on the ticket the officer checked "Radar" as the means used to measure my speed. There was no box for "Laser". Is this a technicality that I could use in my court hearing? I mean technically if the officer used "laser" and not "radar" as he checked, could he simply have hand written "Laser" ?
Other than the fact that I was about four car lengths behind the lady when my speed was being read giving the officer a bad angle to record my speed, are there ways of sucessfully arguing that the officer's Laser was defective?
Thanks,
John/ [email protected]What is the name of your state?