No Suckage Here - Trial by Written Declaration

[Mike_N_Ike]

I had gotten pulled over some months ago on suspicion of speeding - whatever the hell that is. Apparently the officer thought my car looked like it was going fast. He didn't radar me or pace me, but kept trying to trick me into saying that I was going over the speed limit. I guess if you admit to driving any faster than the speed limit, it's pretty much a done deal with respect to any options you have to fight the ticket later. Conversation went something like,

Officer: What's the speed limit here?
Me: I believe it's 40 MPH.
Officer: Now how fast were you going?
Me: I was doing the speed limit, officer.
Officer: How fast were you going?
Me: 40 MPH sir.
Officer: No, 40 MPH is the speed limit. How fast were you going?
Me: I really believe I was going 40.
Officer: Well, the speed limit is 40 so you were probably going either 50 or 60. Which was it?

and so on...
He said that he saw my car bouncing up and down faster than it would have been if I was going 40 MPH. I offered my opinion that it might be due to the aftermarket shocks but that only seemed to make the dude more upset. So he said he was writing me a ticket for an unsafe lane change that I had made a few blocks back or something like that. I also got 2 fix it tickets, one of which was written as a non-correctable violation so that i'd have to pay more to fix it instead of the normal 10 dollars. The other was because my drivers license has my parents address on it instead of my temp. school one. I've never had such a bad experience with a police officer. I know that they have a freaking hard job to do and my car attracts a little bit of attention, but this was just over the top.

Anyways, I fought the ticket by written declaration because I figured the dude was either illiterate, or too lazy to try to write up a rebuttal and I just found out that I won - so I'm really happy tonight:).

[Nija]

what was the non-correctable?

GJ though :thumbup:

[Mike_N_Ike]

Originally posted by Nija
what was the non-correctable?


Slight tint on the driver and passenger windows.

[Nija]

Originally posted by Mike_N_Ike


Slight tint on the driver and passenger windows.

wow the hell is that non-correctable!??!

i was riding with my cousin who had very dark windows (all the way around) and we got pulled over, and the cop issued him a fix-it ticket, and this was in Riverside.

yur cop was a dick.

[raimin]

tint designed into the window?

i hate cops on a power trip...sheesh

[appleseed]

Originally posted by Nija
yur cop was a dick. :stupid:

[molecularfire]

Uhhh... someone's got to ask this. If you're uncomfortable answering this, you don't have to (I swear, I'm not the cop that pulled you over) but were you speeding?

[Mike_N_Ike]

Hahahah...I was waiting for that.:D

It's hard to say because I got pulled over a minute or two after he alleged that I was driving to fast so I don't exactly remember. The thing is, I had just picked up pizza from Papa Johns, and my girlfriend was riding in the passenger seat - two reasons to drive more carefully. I suppose it's possible I hit 45 at one point but I wasn't speeding.

[eSDee]

If you do a search about traffic tickets here you will see that in every instance I have exhalted the virtues of a trial by declaration. I got out of a few big tickets this way, and I believe it is your best defence possible. You get more time to plan it out, write it out, and send in your defence.

Great job man you deserve it!

[Mike_N_Ike]

Thanks! :)