What is the name of your state? Connecticut
Recently I was charged a $206 dollar ticket for "following too closely" and "passing in a no-pass zone". The best part was that it was based on someones "sworn statement". It was around 9 pm and I was driving home. I noticed a car was stopped at a stop sign a couple seconds up the road. When I saw that the car wasn't going, I figured they were going to let me go first before they pulled out. Instead, they pulled out right in front of me and instead of accellerating, they started tapping their brakes... eventually coming to a complete stop. I didn't know what that car was doing so I waited for 2 seconds or so and proceeded to go around the stopped vehicle.
At that moment, the other car started accellerating, flipped on it's high-beams, and laid on the horn... tail-gaiting me to the bottom of my street where I stopped, thinking the person was going to pass me. Instead the person in the other car pulled up behind me, got out of the car, and approached my driver's side window. She made me roll down the window and said the following "I am State Trooper, Officer "X"'s wife, and you are GOING to get a ticket!" (She stated her husband's REAL name)
Words were exchanged and I drove away angry. I got home upset and scared that the police might be able to do something about what happened.
Around 11 pm an officer showed up at my door and demanded to speak to the person who drives "the red car". When I told him it was me that drove the car, he asked to see my license. I asked him why he needed my license and he said, "To give you a ticket."
The police officer, refusing to listen to my side of the story, then proceeded to write out a ticket for the case saying that the woman submitted a sworn statement and that I couldn't submit one because I would be doing it in retaliation and that it wouldn't count.
I sent the ticket in not guilty, I was wondering if I did the right thing and if I can actually win this case. I feel as though a great injustice was done to me.
The ticket was $206 with 9 points attatched to it.
Recently I was charged a $206 dollar ticket for "following too closely" and "passing in a no-pass zone". The best part was that it was based on someones "sworn statement". It was around 9 pm and I was driving home. I noticed a car was stopped at a stop sign a couple seconds up the road. When I saw that the car wasn't going, I figured they were going to let me go first before they pulled out. Instead, they pulled out right in front of me and instead of accellerating, they started tapping their brakes... eventually coming to a complete stop. I didn't know what that car was doing so I waited for 2 seconds or so and proceeded to go around the stopped vehicle.
At that moment, the other car started accellerating, flipped on it's high-beams, and laid on the horn... tail-gaiting me to the bottom of my street where I stopped, thinking the person was going to pass me. Instead the person in the other car pulled up behind me, got out of the car, and approached my driver's side window. She made me roll down the window and said the following "I am State Trooper, Officer "X"'s wife, and you are GOING to get a ticket!" (She stated her husband's REAL name)
Words were exchanged and I drove away angry. I got home upset and scared that the police might be able to do something about what happened.
Around 11 pm an officer showed up at my door and demanded to speak to the person who drives "the red car". When I told him it was me that drove the car, he asked to see my license. I asked him why he needed my license and he said, "To give you a ticket."
The police officer, refusing to listen to my side of the story, then proceeded to write out a ticket for the case saying that the woman submitted a sworn statement and that I couldn't submit one because I would be doing it in retaliation and that it wouldn't count.
I sent the ticket in not guilty, I was wondering if I did the right thing and if I can actually win this case. I feel as though a great injustice was done to me.
The ticket was $206 with 9 points attatched to it.
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