Best thing you did was to keep your mouth shut and not say a thing, and getting a lawyer for that speed, the fact you did not say a thing will give your lawyer something to work with.
On the question is the officer trained to us LIDAR, you would expect them to be, however, not always and some states do not have training requirements, but if your lawyer does his job right he would do a discovery request on all the officer training.
And no your not paranoid for not putting too much information on this site, I know of a few cases where the officer walked into court with printed information the person posted to the web about their ticket and what happen and it was used against them in spite of the fact the documents were hearsay.
Lastly, You Are Guilt summed it up for you for NY, you might look into mass transit if your lawyer is not successful.
Make sure your lawyer is familiar with LIDAR if he is not, find another since LIDAR ticket can be beatable since getting a valid speed depends on the officer doing a number of things right and it is easy to cause LIDAR to get a false high speed, research Pan and Slip errors with LIDAR.
On the question is the officer trained to us LIDAR, you would expect them to be, however, not always and some states do not have training requirements, but if your lawyer does his job right he would do a discovery request on all the officer training.
And no your not paranoid for not putting too much information on this site, I know of a few cases where the officer walked into court with printed information the person posted to the web about their ticket and what happen and it was used against them in spite of the fact the documents were hearsay.
Lastly, You Are Guilt summed it up for you for NY, you might look into mass transit if your lawyer is not successful.
Make sure your lawyer is familiar with LIDAR if he is not, find another since LIDAR ticket can be beatable since getting a valid speed depends on the officer doing a number of things right and it is easy to cause LIDAR to get a false high speed, research Pan and Slip errors with LIDAR.