Speeding ticket questions

[sparks192]

Well, a couple days ago, I got a speeding ticket (I am from Colorado, BTW). A motorcycle cop clocked me with a radar/lidar gun (I don't know which, and stupidly, I didn't ask). He said I was going 48 in a 30. I had looked at my speedometer, and it was slightly below 40.

I have looked over my ticket thoroughly, and it has some very minor flaws - the number of doors on my car is wrong (I have 4, he said 2), and the location is off by about 2 blocks.

Also, the stretch of road that I was on was right before a stop sign, and he had me stop about 20 feet before the stop sign, but he was only about 150 feet from the stop sign himself. So, I had to have been slowing down from 40mph by the time I got to him.

One more thing - he was hiding behind a hill/bush in a drainage ditch. Is that legal? People have told me that cops have to be in plain site when operating a speed trap, though I honestly don't know. Also, because of the hill/bush, he couldn't have used his gun until I was right next to him.

Any help would be appreciated, as I know of a couple other people who got ticketed by him that day as well.

Thanks,
"Ted"

 

[RedneckRoy]

Pay the damn ticket and get on with life. 40.....48, what's the difference. You were speeding and got busted for it. So take it like a man. My gramps once said at times ya got to pay the fiddler if you want to dance.

 

[sparks192]

I know, I know. Just don't want to if I don't have to.

 

[RedneckRoy]

hahahaha....I hear ya bud, can't say that I blame ya