[Shotimes] OT: Help! Unfair traffic ticket!

[alfitz@alfitz.com]

The chances of you winning are so remote you might as well just pay the
fine.
This will boil down to your word against the cops word and you don't stand a
chance.

Cops lie all the time, but the judge will side with him.

Al Fitzgerald
alfitz@alfitz.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Kesselring" <ckesselring@sisna.com>
To: "Shotimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] OT: Help! Unfair traffic ticket!


> Today, I got a ticket in my SHO for an "improper lane change", and I am
> furious about it.  This cop in an unmarked, untagged CV pulled me over and
> accused me of making several lane changes without signalling.  The signal
is
> working...he checked.  What pisses me off is that I know I signalled, as I
> do every single time, so this a**hole had to be either mistaken or making
it
> up.  I admit, I was driving fairly aggressively, and that is probably why
he
> pulled me over.  For him to cite me for something I didn't even do, or
> rather not doing something I did do, is ludicrous.  Of course, I will go
to
> court, but what approach should I take?  Obviously, I am going to plead
"Not
> Guilty", does that automatically disqualify me from any bargaining?  I am
> not going to plead "Guilty" to something I know I didn't do!  This isn't
one
> of those "Well, I'm not sure how fast I was going" things, I am dead sure.
> What I really want to happen is to walk into the courtroom, explain that I
> did not do what the officer said I did, and walk out with the ticket
> dismissed.  But how do I do that?  Geez, this sucks.  Oh, and by the way,
> this was in Midvale, UT.
>
> Christian Kesselring
> '92 SHO 119k
> '02 PT Cruiser 9k
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