What is the name of your state? I am a citizen of Kansas, ticket was issued in Missouri.
I got a ticket on 10-23-05 in Kansas City, Missouri on Highway 152 & US 169. The officer said he clocked me going 78 in a 60 with a radar gun at 1554 feet. Now, there was a PT Cruizer in front of me. I was driving a company Ford Econoline 250 Full-size van. The PT Cruizer was going 55, and I was just coming up onto it when it changed lanes. The officer was a motorcycle cop, who had a partner with him. When the PT Cruizer changed lanes, I started to accellerate... I know I wasn't going 78, seeing how the company van barely will make 85 without holding the pedal all the way down for a couple of minutes straight. When I saw the officers, they were talking, then one hoped on his bike and pointed at me and made a "pull over" motion. Anyways, I gave him my lisence and told him that I wasn't speeding, and that there was another vehicle in front of me, and he said "the one you were chasing?". I told him how could he be sure he hit me and not that vehicle. He told me that his partner clocked me first at 79mph, then this officer clocked me at 78... all of this within a 10 second time spand because as soon as I saw them, i hit the brakes, and I know they can't bounce radar off the tires. He issued me the ticket as a mail in.
Three mistakes I found... first, my age. He was off by a year (since I just had my b-day). Second... my lisence number. I've got two "8's" in my lisence number, but he wrote down one of them as a 3... thanks to the hologram on my lisence and how it just happens to cut off the left side of the 8 when viewed outside. The third is my name. I legally on my birth certificate have two first names, and it's hyphonated. On my license in Kansas, they can't hyphonate my first name-- so cops constantly put down my second first name as a middle inital, so they put down two middle initials rather than one. Any of these mistakes to my advantage?
Am I able to take this to court, do the basic questions, admit I was speeding, then simply say "no more questions"... then let the prosecution rest, and then bring up this mistake and present my lisence which shows an issue date of 09-17-2004? The 8 he wrote down incorrectly is very noticeable as an 8 when viewed inside-- not to mention there's another 8 in the same field, same font, same color.
Any advice?
Also I was issued another ticket in New Mexico back in August for speeding-- they forced me to plead guilty or not guilty on the spot, and wouldn't let me consult a lawyer. I was going 89 in a 75. But the same deal with the lisence number happened- he wrote down a 3 instead of an 8. I paid the ticket and told them they made a mistake, but not what it was. Will it be possible for them to tag this onto my record? I know in Kansas that if you get 3 tickets in a year they will suspend your license, and regretfully I got a third one last week. So.. somehow I gotta get one of these off.
I got a ticket on 10-23-05 in Kansas City, Missouri on Highway 152 & US 169. The officer said he clocked me going 78 in a 60 with a radar gun at 1554 feet. Now, there was a PT Cruizer in front of me. I was driving a company Ford Econoline 250 Full-size van. The PT Cruizer was going 55, and I was just coming up onto it when it changed lanes. The officer was a motorcycle cop, who had a partner with him. When the PT Cruizer changed lanes, I started to accellerate... I know I wasn't going 78, seeing how the company van barely will make 85 without holding the pedal all the way down for a couple of minutes straight. When I saw the officers, they were talking, then one hoped on his bike and pointed at me and made a "pull over" motion. Anyways, I gave him my lisence and told him that I wasn't speeding, and that there was another vehicle in front of me, and he said "the one you were chasing?". I told him how could he be sure he hit me and not that vehicle. He told me that his partner clocked me first at 79mph, then this officer clocked me at 78... all of this within a 10 second time spand because as soon as I saw them, i hit the brakes, and I know they can't bounce radar off the tires. He issued me the ticket as a mail in.
Three mistakes I found... first, my age. He was off by a year (since I just had my b-day). Second... my lisence number. I've got two "8's" in my lisence number, but he wrote down one of them as a 3... thanks to the hologram on my lisence and how it just happens to cut off the left side of the 8 when viewed outside. The third is my name. I legally on my birth certificate have two first names, and it's hyphonated. On my license in Kansas, they can't hyphonate my first name-- so cops constantly put down my second first name as a middle inital, so they put down two middle initials rather than one. Any of these mistakes to my advantage?
Am I able to take this to court, do the basic questions, admit I was speeding, then simply say "no more questions"... then let the prosecution rest, and then bring up this mistake and present my lisence which shows an issue date of 09-17-2004? The 8 he wrote down incorrectly is very noticeable as an 8 when viewed inside-- not to mention there's another 8 in the same field, same font, same color.
Any advice?
Also I was issued another ticket in New Mexico back in August for speeding-- they forced me to plead guilty or not guilty on the spot, and wouldn't let me consult a lawyer. I was going 89 in a 75. But the same deal with the lisence number happened- he wrote down a 3 instead of an 8. I paid the ticket and told them they made a mistake, but not what it was. Will it be possible for them to tag this onto my record? I know in Kansas that if you get 3 tickets in a year they will suspend your license, and regretfully I got a third one last week. So.. somehow I gotta get one of these off.
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