My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California
I was cited in December,2016 for speeding at 55mph on a road of 40mph. Today I had my trial in court and cop showed up. On the traffic ticket he had written wrong intersection and the survey for that road was done 6.5 years back. In court he produced proof of his training and laser gun calibration. Here is how it happened:
1) When he presented traffic and engineering survey report the date said 9/24/2010 but he said its 04/2011 because that was the date on the cover letter of the report he had. Judge kept saying officer is right because that date (2011) is when it was approved for perusal. Later when I showed him my copy of report where it was basically the same report but cover later had date of 02/2017. I said if that is the date then as per my report the survey has been done on 02/2017. Thats when judge backed off and said whatever be the date 2010 or 2011 its same effect. At this point I knew he is biased as he is just blindly going with whatever cop is saying.
2) I said since cop has wrong intersection name on ticket even though where he stopped me there was a road sign with the road name. That shows that officer wasn't attentive enough and was not in capacity to use precise instrument like Lidar. Cop argued that he has no control on citation because it was generated by his printer/computer and the software still has several years old namer the road in it and that is why ticket has wrong road name data. I kept pressing that he could have entered the intersection name or crossed and corrected it if he were responsible and attentive. He kept silent . I was requesting judge that cop can't be trusted with using Lidar if he wasn't attentive enough to read a road sign 5ft ahead. I was requesting officers account to be dismissed as witness.Judge said that is for him to decide.
After the arguments judge says that all I have done is proved that officer's computer maybe wrong so he will still hold officer's citation valid and me guilty. I don't even know if what cop said was true that his instrument fill's in the intersection name that he has no control over because I know two other people who got tickets at exact same location on same day and their tickets have right intersection name.
What do you guys think, as a third person view, about the arguments above - was judge fair in his judgement? Was cop right that he has no control over correcting intersection name when citation is getting generated from his automatic machine? If you feel this judgement is unfair, is there any legal statute for me to contest this biased judgement?
I was cited in December,2016 for speeding at 55mph on a road of 40mph. Today I had my trial in court and cop showed up. On the traffic ticket he had written wrong intersection and the survey for that road was done 6.5 years back. In court he produced proof of his training and laser gun calibration. Here is how it happened:
1) When he presented traffic and engineering survey report the date said 9/24/2010 but he said its 04/2011 because that was the date on the cover letter of the report he had. Judge kept saying officer is right because that date (2011) is when it was approved for perusal. Later when I showed him my copy of report where it was basically the same report but cover later had date of 02/2017. I said if that is the date then as per my report the survey has been done on 02/2017. Thats when judge backed off and said whatever be the date 2010 or 2011 its same effect. At this point I knew he is biased as he is just blindly going with whatever cop is saying.
2) I said since cop has wrong intersection name on ticket even though where he stopped me there was a road sign with the road name. That shows that officer wasn't attentive enough and was not in capacity to use precise instrument like Lidar. Cop argued that he has no control on citation because it was generated by his printer/computer and the software still has several years old namer the road in it and that is why ticket has wrong road name data. I kept pressing that he could have entered the intersection name or crossed and corrected it if he were responsible and attentive. He kept silent . I was requesting judge that cop can't be trusted with using Lidar if he wasn't attentive enough to read a road sign 5ft ahead. I was requesting officers account to be dismissed as witness.Judge said that is for him to decide.
After the arguments judge says that all I have done is proved that officer's computer maybe wrong so he will still hold officer's citation valid and me guilty. I don't even know if what cop said was true that his instrument fill's in the intersection name that he has no control over because I know two other people who got tickets at exact same location on same day and their tickets have right intersection name.
What do you guys think, as a third person view, about the arguments above - was judge fair in his judgement? Was cop right that he has no control over correcting intersection name when citation is getting generated from his automatic machine? If you feel this judgement is unfair, is there any legal statute for me to contest this biased judgement?
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