Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert From: seifert@ihuxl.UUCP (D.A. Seifert) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Defense for Speeding Message-ID: <892@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 08:44:54 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxl.892 Posted: Tue Feb 7 08:44:54 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 14:23:06 EST References: <5383@decwrl.UUCP> <1910@ihnss.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 18 > What arguments might work to get oneself out of a speeding ticket will > vary from judge to judge. I sat in on traffic court recently where a > defendant tried asking for calibration records, etc. only to have the > judge exclaim: "I know what you're up to and I'm not about to turn this > into a `federal case'. The judge then proceeded to declare the defendant > guilty. The judge obviously doesn't care about justice, just about making money off of alleged speeders. (Which is all too common, but not usually so blatent.) I hope whoever it was demanded a retrial. -- _____ /_____\ from the flying doghouse of /_______\ Snoopy |___| ____|___|_____ ihnp4!ihuxl!seifert