Reckless Driving in Colorado

[Hondatom]

What is the name of your state? Colorado

Last week, I recived a reckess driving ticket by my schools police force. They are allowed to give moving vehicle tickets. Anyway I was driving into my appartment complex at night, faster than i should have been, and came around a curve next to my building. I saw the cop parked in the middle of the road about 200 feet from me. He was giving a car a parking ticket and had onlyhis headlights on. So I slamed on my breaks and managed to skid almost to a compleate stop then pulled into a parking spot. He got out of his car and gave me a ticket for reckless driving. After that was finished he and I measured the skidmark. His first measurement was 37 ft which I imediately argued with, which was follwed with a jail threat and a remeasurement of the skid mark (22ft 6in). I looked up this length on the net and recived an approximate speed of 22-25mph, the speedlimit is 15mph.
I am wondering if there is any advice on how to fight this ticket? I plan on seeing the DA to see if i can recive a lesser charge. Please help me, i dont need this on my record

[Matymat]

First time offense?...If so depending on your financial situation and how the law works in CO you might just want to go to court explain you are sorry and take a slap on the wrist...If you have a bad record you might want to consider a lawyer.

I will tell you this however...You admitted to speeding

Not only that you left skid marks. A typical car moving at 20mph will require a stoping distance of 25 feet, 35 miles an hour requires a distance of 105 feet...and so on and so on...Read up on physics if you are going to contest skid marks. The info I am giving you is standard (The laws of motion apply to us all). So in your case I would think the following (based on what you have said). I think you were going about 40 miles an hour. To leave skid marks means that you were going faster then normal. Normal to stop going 20mph would require a distance of 25 feet (with no skidmarks).

Just my 2

Good luck